JA Solar intending new 20GW cell and module manufacturing center in Qidong, China

• 'Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) member JA Solar is planning a brand-new manufacturing center in Qidong Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu District, China to operate 20GW of solar cell production as well as 20GW of PV module setting up.

JA Solar has signed the financial investment framework arrangement for the brand-new production hub with the People's Federal government of Qidong City, Jiangsu Province, which is expected to cost about RMB 10. 2 billion (US$ 1.56 billion) over a four-year building and construction duration.

The project is anticipated to be constructed in three separate stages of roughly 6.6 GW per stage for both the cell as well as module assembly plants.

The SMSL did not divulge timelines for the new enormous development as an interior review by the board of supervisors or general meeting of shareholders has yet to be set.

Recently, JA Solar confirmed the go ahead of strategies announced in February 2021 for the financial investment and building of the Baotou Phase III 20GW ingot and also mono-wafer plant growth at a price of RMB 5.024 billion (US$ 769.4 million) and also take around 2 years to be completed and ramped.

In January 2021, JA Solar additionally introduced updated plans for a 10GW solar cell plant in Yangzhou in addition to revealing a 6GW module setting up plant at the very same location.