Jinergy implements low-carbon construction to restore green value of clean PV energy
China is working to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, which has epoch-making significance for optimizing the transformation of energy structure. After two years of practical actions, green and low-carbon goal has become the main theme of industrial upgrading and development. Photovoltaic (PV), as an important way to achieve low-carbon development, is undergoing continuous industrial optimization while experiencing a continuous increase in installed capacity. Jinneng Clean Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jinergy" or the “Company”) restores the green value of PV as a clean energy through technology iteration, low-carbon construction, green production and other means, to help customers achieve a more thorough transformation of PV low-carbon energy use.
The significance of the PV industry focusing on its own low-carbon construction is not only reflected in the domestic carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. The key clean energy markets represented by Europe have built a high “carbon barrier”, monitoring the carbon emissions of PV products throughout their life cycle by the “carbon footprint” label, and improving the entry threshold of external PV products. Jinergy is committed to the development of globalization, and is one of the first Chinese PV enterprises to obtain the “French Carbon Footprint (CFP)” certification. Jinergy has a “green recognition” customer base in the more developed European key markets, and its production level of energy conservation and emission reduction is well recognized.
Optimizing production links and standardizing “emission reduction” requirements
In the industrial sector, greenhouse gases from production activities are the main source of carbon dioxide emissions. Starting from the internal production link, Jinergy chose vacuum gas water heaters with low pollutant emission at the initial stage of design of the two production bases. Later, Jinergy replaced it with waste heat from nearby thermal power plants for heating, and actively reduced carbon emissions generated by the use of natural gas, reducing about 205,334kg of “carbon dioxide” according to rough statistics.
In terms of water use, it also implements the concept of sustainable development. The Company has saved about 113,400 tons of water per year through “RO concentrated water reclamation”, “secondary utilization of concentrated water”, “air conditioning cabinet humidification/condensate water reclamation” and other measures. And it adopts water chilling unit heat recovery and other measures to save electricity of 129,150 KWH and reduce carbon dioxide emission of about 128,763kg annually. The Company also takes advantage of the monsoon climate characteristics of Shanxi Province to replace the water chilling unit with the cold-water plate in the winter when the temperature is distinct. This measure can save 855,809 KWH of electricity and reduce about 8,532,412kg of carbon dioxide mission.
Implementing low-carbon concept in practical actions
Jinergy adheres to the concept of low-carbon and green development, and installs distributed power stations and builds and maintains several power stations in the production bases according to local conditions, with an annual generating capacity of about 260 million KWH and annual carbon dioxide emission reduction of 259,220t/a.
PV, as the main role in the energy system, makes the most powerful contribution to the realization of the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. As a clean energy provider that adheres to technological innovation, Jinergy reduces the cost of PV construction ICOE with efficient technology, builds and maintains PV power stations to deliver green energy value, and provides clean electricity for office and production operation in the mode of self-generated and self-used surplus electricity for access to the grid. Jinergy pursues low-carbon and green development in a multi-faceted manner, thus achieving green and efficient “sustainable cycle”.
Aiming at low-carbon HJT to develop green PV products
Since its establishment, Jinergy has been firmly focused on green technologies and processes, and continues to develop N-type heterojunction (HJT) products that are “naturally low-carbon”. HJT can significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions during module production due to fewer production steps and low energy consumption in the low-temperature process. In the silicon wafer module production link with the highest carbon emission, Jinergy gives full play to the characteristics of HJT which can carry ultra-thin silicon wafers better than TOPCon and PERC. Under the premise of keeping the same efficiency, the wafer thickness of Jinergy’s HJT cell is reduced from 150μm to 100μm, decreasing the silicon cost and greatly lowering the carbon emissions generated by the silicon wafer. Therefore, it can be said that Jinergy’s HJT modules are born with “low-carbon properties”.
