JinkoSolar’s Invention Patents Recognized by National Intellectual Property Administration as “the Belt and Road” Excellent Cases

Recently, the China National Intellectual Property administration released the results of China’s “the Belt and Road” countries and regions’ excellent cases of invention patents, and JinkoSolar became the only PV module company to be awarded with its innovative breakthroughs in the field of N-type TOPCon technology and globalized patent layout. JinkoSolar’s key technology patents provide technical support for the upgrading of the local PV industry and green energy transformation in the Belt and Road countries.

With its proprietary intellectual property rights, including ultra-thin passivation layer design and high-precision interface composite optimization, JinkoSolar has achieved a mass production efficiency of 26.7% for its golden sliced cells, which has successively broken the PV technology ceiling for 27 times, and has become the world’s first photovoltaic company to achieve large-scale mass production of N-type TOPCon technology. In response to the diverse climate scenarios of the Belt and Road countries, JinkoSolar’s Tiger Neo series modules continue to make breakthroughs in terms of all-dimensional performance advantages, especially in core indicators such as overall power generation, all-weather power generation capacity, bifaciality, degradation, and return on investment, which make them a full-scenario energy solution from desert power plants to polar systems.

In terms of patent layout, JinkoSolar’s global patent applications have exceeded 4,200, of which more than 2,800 are validly authorized patents, with 462 N-type TOPCon related authorized patents, ranking first in the industry, building the industry’s most complete and cutting-edge patent barriers. As the first PV company in the world to ship more than 300GW of modules, JinkoSolar has topped the global module shipment list for six years, and insists on technological innovation to firmly grasp the competitiveness and initiative of the company.

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.

JinkoSolar 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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