March 24 morning news, based in Baoding Yingli Green Energy solar energy company, announced this year’s expansion of 400 MW capacity, total capacity will be expanded to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts). The same time, new technology enabled the production of silicon materials,battery, is expected to cast off the photovoltaic production of high energy consumption, high pollution, high-cost “hat.”
Expansion of 400 MW capacity this year,
Yingli Green Energy announced that it will build a capacity in Baoding Headquarters, 300 megawatts of “Panda”, a complete industrial chain of single-crystal production line, including single-crystal ingot, slicing, battery manufacturing and component packaging sectors. It is reported that the expansion project will achieve the “Panda,” Efficient large-scale production of batteries.
It is reported that “Panda” efficient battery by Yingli Green Energy, Solar energy research institutes in Europe the Netherlands Energy Research Center (ECN) and the photovoltaic cell manufacturing equipment and automation systems supplier Amtech Corporation jointly developed. At present, in the “Panda” efficient battery-test line, photovoltaic cells, the average conversion efficiency of solar energy has reached 18%, and is expected to achieve large-scale production after the end of the battery, the average conversion efficiency will be at least 18.5%.
Coupled with the existing 600-megawatt capacity of Baoding, as well as Hainan, 100 MW under construction production capacity, total capacity of Yingli Green Energy will be the end of 2010 to reach 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts).
90% of the PV modules are sold to overseas markets
When asked “Why in the photovoltaic industry in the face of accusations of excess production capacity against the background of expansion of production capacity choice,” Yingli Green Energy Liansheng Miao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said: “In 2010, the global PV market will continue to show growth, based on a large number of orders we receive and purchase intentions, battery,we decided to conduct a strategic expansion. ”
Ying Li believes that the adoption of the expansion project, not only to meet the market’s strong demand for Yingli products, but also through cell conversion efficiency and the expansion of production scale and further reduce costs.
It is reported that Yingli’s PV modules sales market, including Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, South Korea, China and the United States, which accounted for only 10% of sales in the Chinese market. To expand our global influence, Yingli only recently meddled in the World Cup in South Africa to become the world’s first World Cup soccer tournament sponsored by the renewable energy company.
It is reported that Yingli in 2009 shipments of 525.3 MW, gross margin of 23.6%; expected in 2010 shipments of 950 megawatts to 1 gigawatt, annual growth rate of 86%, gross margin guidance of 27-29%.
Silicon material to produce new technology is expected to achieve zero pollution
Yingli Green Energy has a capacity of self-produced silicon materials in 2009, began construction of a silicon materials plant – 69 of silicon industry will enable the new technology the “new silane Law” production of silicon materials, this is the first domestic. PV is expected to take off the production of high energy consumption, high pollution, high-cost “hat.”
Yingli Green Energy Liuyao Cheng, vice president, said Siemens, improved with the traditional method compared to new technology the new silane Act has a number of advantages, improved conversion rate of silicon Siemens France only 20%, and the new Law on silane conversion rate can reach 90%, the remaining Transformation of silica is not re-enter the system circulation can also be transformed. The new method not only increases the silane conversion rate, and the raw material is a common sand.
In the energy context, using traditional modified Siemens Production of energy per kilogram of polysilicon 75-120 kWh, while the new technology of new energy-silane France only 25 per kilogram of electricity. Liuyao Cheng said that the new silane process production of photovoltaic components method, the production process energy components can be recovered within one year after use, while the general life of PV modules up to 25 years.
At the same time, improvement in the production process of Siemens method will produce toxic gases silicon tetrachloride, some manufacturers do not recall or simply buried, leading to environmental pollution; the new technology a new silane method, the production process does not produce toxic gases silicon tetrachloride, subsidiary the product of hydrogen and sulfate can be collected using the production process can achieve zero pollution.
It is reported that Yingli Green Energy has been cutting costs of space, according to estimates, one-watt PV modules currently in production cost of 1.35 U.S. dollars. Miao Liansheng revealed that at present there Yingli almost every two days, a technical advance, the cost will be further compressed. According to this progress in 2012 in the European market, battery,Yingli PV modules and conventional power generation costs will be the cost of flat.