Canadian Solar


Canadian Solar Inc. is a publicly traded company that manufactures solar PV modules and runs large scale solar projects.

History

Founded in 2001 in Canada by Shawn Qu, Canadian Solar has subsidiaries in over 24 countries on 6 continents. They manufacture solar PV modules, are involved in supporting the installation of solar energy, and are involved in a number utility-scale power projects. With the company's acquisition of Recurrent Energy, Canadian Solar's total project pipeline reached 20.4 GW, including an increase in the late-stage project pipeline to 2.4 GW.
Including two manufacturing facilities in Ontario, Canadian Solar employs nearly 9,000 workers worldwide. This translates to more than 16 GW of panel shipments, or approximately 70 million PV modules, in the past 15 years.

Manufacturing

Canadian Solar production facilities in Canada, China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Brazil make ingots, wafers, solar cells, solar PV modules, solar power systems, and other solar products.
The bulk of Canadian Solar's manufacturing facilities are located in Canada and China. The Ontario plant has a production capacity of over 500 MW per year.

Products

Canadian Solar offers solar modules, solar power systems, off-grid solar home systems and other solar products.
Canadian Solar's global PV project business unit has been in operation for over six years and develops PV projects worldwide, specializing in project development, system design, engineering and financing. In addition, Canadian Solar can handle the deployment of photovoltaic projects systems, ranging a few hundred kilowatts to mega-watts.
Canadian Solar's standard modules are powered by 156 x 156 mm mono-crystalline or poly-crystalline solar cells.

Projects

Below are some of Canadian Solar's projects:

Europe