Chinese solar manufacturers like ReneSola have for several years been hiring overseas contract manufacturers to assemble modules, largely to work around trade tariffs in Europe and the US. Some players – including JinkoSolar – have gone as far as establishing overseas module plants.
But Jinko’s latest announcement may be the most significant yet.
Jinko’s Malaysia factory is important in every sense: It comes with a $100m price tag, more than ten times the cost of the company's module-assembly plant in South Africa.
