EPSE in China

16-11-2018

Dr. Victor Doña, the president of EPSE, along with Jorge Quattropani, the vice president of EPSE, and engineer Lucas Estrada formed the team destined to carry out this mission in the cities of Shanghai, Haining and Shangrao that aimed to carry out certain activities with JinKo Solar Holding Co, Ltd.

Who is JinKo Solar?

JonKo Solar is a global leader in the solar industry that distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified group of international clients (major utilities, businesses, residences) in China, the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the UAE, Italy, Spain, France and Belgium, among others.

JinKo Solar is a global leader in the vertically-integrated manufacturing of solar PV, creating a value chain of production made up of solar components with an annual capacity of 7000 MW for ingots and silicon wafers, 4500 MW of solar cells and 8000 MW of solar panels (data from 2017). This made them the largest producer globally in 2017. The company has more than 15000 employees, 8 manufacturing sites (the 2 main ones are in China), 16 affiliates located in Japan, Singapore, India, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Australia, South Africa, the UAB and has sales teams located in the UK, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Kenya, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama and Argentina.

Why was this trip important for EPSE and for Argentina?

The province of San Juan, on one hand, has been developing the Solar San Juan projects that includes, among other things, the construction of a panel factory that is also to be integrated, starting with quartz and leading up to the panels, to which the machines have already been acquired and the buildings have already started construction.

The province is also developing private projects that are associated with EPSE in terrain that is available, and it is being done within the framework of the Solar San Juan project and the national programs that aim to promote renewable energy. Today 575 MW worth of projects have been laid out, each at a different point of progress.

In particular, the Anchipurac 3 MW Industrial and Technological Park and Regional Environmental Technology (PITAR) is being developed with the State Secretary of the Environment and Sustainable Development. The park is located in Rividavia with the goal of providing partial energy to the industries that will be installed there.

JinKo Solar is the provider of the solar panels for the Anchipurac Park via Multiradio Sa, the representative in Argentina. JinKo Solar is also the provider of four other PV parks that are

under construction, one that’s 80 MW in Estancia Guañizuil in Iglesia, and 3 others in the department of Ullum that are 25 MW, 25 MW and 32 MW, respectively.

What was the itinerary for the trip? Were inspections made for a project in particular to be carried out by EPSE? Did EPSE present some type of project in particular to this major company?

Yes, the presence of EPSE staff and directors was to participate in the verification and inspection of production processes for PV modules for the Anchipurac park. That way they could visit, look into and experience the other processes of production (ingots, wafers and cells) while maintaining meetings with experts that made themselves available.

The trip was scheduled and coordinated by the company Multiradio SA (representing JinKo in Argentina) and by the JinKo branch in Shanghai who sent the invitation to the province of San Juan because of their interest in solar. Multiradio took on the expenses for travel and housing. The opportunity advanced EPSE’s understanding of the production processes employed in the production lines and JinKo Solar said that the Province could manage its operations at the panel factory and sell its panels as a strategic partners.

Autor
Unidad de Comunicación EPSE
Fuente
EPSE