5 reasons why EnergyKing chooses Jinko Solar

Jinko Solar was founded in 2006 and just a decade later grew to become the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels in 2016. The company has held the top spot for the past four consecutive years, with global shipments of 14.3GW in 2019 alone. Based in China, Jinko Solar is a huge multinational, vertically integrated company that employs more than 15,000 people in 70 countries and has manufacturing facilities in China, Malaysia and the US.

Jinko Solar's success is primarily due to their focus on R&D, performance testing, quality control and rigorous durability testing. This is highlighted by numerous record-breaking performances over the years. Several efficiency records and consistent top scores from various independent testing companies, including the well-known PVEL scorecards.

One of the world's leading independent solar module testing and performance services, PVEL, a California-based testing facility, produces the annual PV Module Reliability Scorecard Report. Jinko Solar has performed very well over the past seven years of testing, achieving a "Top Performer" rating each year and being ranked #1 among the best performing & most reliable modules.

This top position can only be due to rigorous testing at Jinko Solar's certified testing facilities and a huge R&D test center that performs advanced failure analysis. Another key area in which Jinko says it has gone further than most competitors is conducting "in-depth due diligence" on all material suppliers. This ensures that they receive only the highest quality raw materials, and that all suppliers' processes and production facilities meet the company's requirements.

The N-type Tiger panels are the first from Jinko Solar with a 15- or 25-year product warranty and a 30-year extended performance guarantee. Thanks to the lower rate of light-induced degradation (LID), the pure N-type panels are guaranteed to still operate at a minimum of 87.4% of rated output after 30 years, representing a very low loss of 0.4% per year of use. The new product warranty period is 15 years for most bifacial N-Type panels and 25 years for the new all-black N-Type Tiger Pro panels.

The higher-performance Tiger series has outputs from 360 W to 475 W. These next-generation panels incorporate many of the latest innovations in solar cell technology, including a larger cell size, the multi-busbar (MBB) with 9 thin wire rails (as opposed to traditional flat ribbon rails) and what Jinko has dubbed "Tiling Ribbon," or TR for short. Tiling Ribbon is a fabrication technique in which the cells overlap slightly, like slanted cells, to eliminate the spacing between cells and increase the overall surface area, which in turn increases efficiency. To achieve this, Jinko uses a unique pressing process to join the thin wire rails together. This has the added benefit of reducing costs and virtually eliminating soldering, which can contain traces of lead. The overall result of these clever innovations is higher performance, improved reliability and, of course, higher efficiency.

Making solar panels using solar energy

JinkoSolar has committed to getting 100% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2025, as part of the RE100 initiative - "RE100 is the global corporate renewable energy initiative that brings together hundreds of major companies that have committed to 100% renewable electricity."

In addition to using renewable energy in all its facilities, Jinko also plans to locate all new factories near regions with high penetration of renewable energy. To help achieve the goal of 100% renewable energy by 2025, Jinko will focus more R&D on developing higher-efficiency solar panels and will strive to use more recycled materials in its production processes. In addition, efforts will be made to use the most energy-efficient production technologies and reduce the use of lead-based solder.

Jinko Solar has not by pure chance become the world's most lauded solar panel manufacturer. Until recently, the company focused not on producing the most efficient panels, but rather on mass-producing the most cost-effective and reliable panels based on proven PV cell technologies. However, Jinko Solar's emphasis on research and development is now helping the solar industry move toward new, high-performance cell technologies. The launch of Tiger N-type panels with tile bond technology highlights Jinko's smart innovative manufacturing techniques to help increase efficiency while keeping costs down.

With Jinko Solar's good track record and solid market position, they are certainly one of the better choices for those looking for reliable, cost-effective solar panels. In particular, the Tiger series panels that have already proven to be a very popular choice for residential and commercial installations.