Featured in A Teutonic shift – 02-2018

Chipping away at coal

Monocrystalline growth: At last month’s World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE, pv magazine interviewed Max Xia, Overseas Marketing Vice President at LONGi Solar Technology Co., Ltd., the global leader in the production of monocrystalline ingots, wafers, cells, and modules. Even after mono’s success story in the past two years, Xia sees tremendous growth ahead, so much so that he envisions solar PV challenging coal’s dominance in his home country China in as little as five years’ time.

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Eckhart Gouras

14 Feb 2018

Max Xia is Longi Solar’s Overseas Marketing Vice President, and revealed to pv magazine the company’s belief that monocrystalline is poised to drive solar innovation to new heights in the coming years.

Chinese PV company Longi Solar is aggressively ramping up its production capacities to address supply constraints experienced in 2017. At the same time, Longi Solar’s Overseas Marketing Vice President Max Xia told pv magazine that he expects even more demand going forward. The main driver for such demand will be bifacial double glass (glass-glass) modules using …

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