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In February 2021 the internationally authoritative third-party organization DNV GL began the third round of assessment of the BOS cost and LCOE of Trina Solar’s 210mm Vertex modules. The assessment took place in Aomori prefecture, Japan. In the assessment, the BOS cost and LCOE were compared between two sets of 210mm Vertex module and 182mm module both with landscape-fixed tilts. Trina Solar’s Vertex 210mm 545W mono-facial modules can cut  the BOS cost by up to 6.3% and LCOE by 5.8% compared with the 182mm 535W mono-facial modules, the report said, and the Vertex 210mm 600W mono-facial module performs just as well in reducing BOS and LCOE (5.6%) compared with the 182mm 585W module.

The world’s leading photovoltaic inverter brands have announced the market launch of inverters compatible with the 210 Ultra-High Power Modules. Mass production of the inverters is due to begin in March 2021, and the price is expected to remain at a level compatible with that of other types of inverters.

DNV GL’s Technical Report: Reducing LCOE by 3.72%, Trina Solar Pioneers in Better System Value by 210 Vertex Modules Conjoining Single-Axis 2 portrait installation (2P) Tracker

On November 27th, Trina Solar, Risen Energy, Zhonghuan Semiconductor, Tongwei, Huansheng Photovoltaic, Runyang New Energy Technology, Canadian Solar, Wuxi Shangji Automation jointly proposed to promote the standardization of 210mm silicon wafer and module size in the photovoltaic industry. The eight companies jointly suggest to use the silicon wafer size following the SEMI standard within the …

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System Value Assessment For Trina 600W+ Vertex Bifacial-Dual-Glass Module with Single-Axis Tracker

Among all types of photovoltaic power plants, those used for agricultural solar lighting and fishing solar lighting come with the highest construction costs. This stems from the considerable challenges these projects hold – pile foundation, construction difficulty and labor cost – in comparison to more ‘normal use’ photovoltaic power plants.

Following the silicon wafer size controversy in the first half of the year, the mass production controversies of Longi, Jinko Solar, and JA Solar surrounding 182 modules have once again moved into the spotlight. Despite these controversies, large-size silicon wafer is still the strategy recognized by the entire industry today as the means to achieve grid parity for the photovoltaic industry.

As the first Chinese developer and supplier of bifacial double-glass modules, Trina Solar has devoted itself to energy yield empirical testing and market promotion of its Duomax Twin bifacial double-glass module since 2017. With high reliability and high energy yield performance, the product has been proven to be prominently effective in driving down system energy cost as the empirical data provided by multiple third parties have confirmed its energy yield gain.

Wafer size increase has become an inevitable trend for the photovoltaic industry. At the manufacturer side, larger-sized wafers can increase the output of wafers, cells, and modules, thereby reducing the per-watt production cost; at the product side, larger-sized wafers can greatly increase the power of modules and raise their efficiencies by optimizing the design of cells and modules; at the system side, as the per-module power and efficiency increase, larger-sized wafer can bring down costs associated with brackets, junction boxes, cables, and land needed for installing these modules, thereby diluting the per-watt system cost.

Trina Solar is proud to announce that TrinaPro has been applied to the Marchihue project with a capacity of 3MW in Chile, and the project has been officially put into commercial operation since February 2019.