JinkoSolar: The First and Only PV Module Company Selected for S&P Global’s “The Sustainability Yearbook 2025”

JinkoSolar, the global leading PV and ESS supplier, has been included in S&P Global’s 2025 Sustainability Yearbook, making it the first photovoltaic module company to be included among the 7,690 global companies assessed. This recognition is a testament to JinkoSolar’s commitment to excellence in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.

In the 2024 Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), 780 companies from 62 industries were selected for the Yearbook, with only 19 in the semiconductor category. JinkoSolar is the sole PV module manufacturer on the list.

S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook identifies and recognizes companies that excel in sustainability across a wide range of industries. According to the latest Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) results released by S&P Global, JinkoSolar’s latest ESG score jumped to 69, ranking first among the top five PV module companies. In addition, JinkoSolar was awarded the BBB rating for the second consecutive year in the ESG ratings issued by MSCI, an authoritative international indexing organization.

As the first PV company in the world to join the RE100 and EP100 green initiatives, JinkoSolar has continued to improve the efficiency of its energy use and the share of clean energy in recent years by optimizing its energy structure, exploring its energy-saving potential, and strengthening its intelligent control. Through its top-down governance structure, JinkoSolar empowers the construction of its climate risk management system with digital development, and drives the carbon reduction and emission reduction of the entire PV industry chain with green operations, helping the global sustainable development and building a green zero-carbon future.

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About JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.

Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. (the “Company”, or “Jinko Solar”) (SSE: 688223) is one of the most famous and innovative solar technology companies in the world. Its business covers the core links of the photovoltaic industry chain, focusing on the R&D of integrated photovoltaic products and integrated clean energy solutions. At present, Jinko Solar’s products serve more than 3,000 customers in more than 160 countries and regions around the world, and the company has ranked No.1 in global module shipments from 2016 to 2019. By the end of Q1,2023, the cumulative module shipments of Jinko Solar have exceeded 150GW. Jinko Solar is an industry opinion leader under various international frameworks such as B20, and it is also one of the first solar energy companies to join the RE100 green initiative.

Jinko Solar is the first company to establish a “vertically integrated” production capacity from silicon material processing to wafer, cell and module production in the industry. It has a total of 14 global production bases in China, the United States, Malaysia and Vietnam. JinkoSolar expects its annual production capacity for mono wafer, solar cell and solar module to reach 75.0 GW, 75.0 GW and 90.0 GW, respectively, by the end of 2023. Jinko Solar has more than 1,000 R&D and technical employees and has won many honors such as “National Enterprise Technology Center”, “National Technology Innovation Demonstration Enterprise”, “Champion of Manufacturing “, and has formulated many international and domestic industry standards such as IEC. Jinko Solar continuously expands the diversified application scenarios of photovoltaic technology, including building-integrated photovoltaic, photovoltaic hydrogen production, energy storage and other fields, and strives to create a new energy ecosystem.

Jinko Solar was listed on the STAR Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2022, and JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd., its indirect controlling shareholder, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010.

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For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

Ms. Stella Wang
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 21-5180-8777 ext.7806
Email: pr@jinkosolar.com