It will use the 15-year facility to finance a 30MW PV installation in western China. It did not specify the preciselocation or reveal when construction will start.

In May, CanadianSolar said its module shipments to Japan jumped sharply from the final quarterof 2012 to account for 24.5% of the 340MW of modules it moved in January-March.

It expects its total global shipments to fall to 1.6-1.8GW