Yingli Green Energy Begins Trial Production
Yingli Green Energy has commenced trial production and reached key technology and operating milestones at its in-house polysilicon manufacturing facility. The company's total output of PV modules has reached 1 GW since it began commercial production in 2002.
Staff -- PV Society, 12/15/2009
Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. (Baoding, China) announced its in-house polysilicon manufacturing facility, Fine Silicon, has begun trial production and reached key technology and operating milestones. With an expected annual production capacity of 3000 MT, the facility, which was completed in less than two years, should reach full production volume in late 2010.
Fine Silicon uses advanced monosilane-based polysilicon manufacturing technology to produce solar-grade and electronic-grade polysilicon. "With Fine Silicon online, Yingli Green Energy will join a limited number of global PV manufacturers with fully vertically integrated business models covering the manufacturing process from polysilicon to PV modules," said Liansheng Miao, chairman and CEO of Yingli Green Energy.
Since 2002, the company has produced a total of 1 GW of PV modules under the Yingli Solar brand. Through a series of expansions, the company has increased its annual production capacity for each of polysilicon ingots and wafers, PV cells and PV modules to 600 MW as of September 2009. Annual shipments of PV modules increased from 4.7 MW in 2004 to 282 MW in 2008, and are expected to be 490-500 MW for 2009.
