Clean Energy Associates helps buyers and long-term owners of solar and energy storage equipment buy the right products and ensure they are properly manufactured and installed.  The rapid growth of the clean energy industry is exhilarating but the explosion of new technologies, new companies, new factories, new markets, and new business models can be hard to stay on top of and brings new risks.

From our headquarters in Denver and our Asian base in Shanghai, CEA provides our clients with investment confidence as we allow them to get a “peek behind the curtain” to understand what is really happening upstream in supply chains and production facilities and downstream in project design and execution.

CEA’s global team has helped our diverse customer base of project developers, EPCs, IPPs, and financial institutions understand industry trends and market dynamics, select the best suppliers, negotiate the best contracts, carefully audit production processes, test equipment in the field, and perform technical and acquisition due diligence.

Our experience executing over 145 GW of solar and 15GWh of storage projects in over 70 countries, including work in over 350 production facilities, is invaluable to our clients as they navigate the ever-changing and hyper-competitive landscape of clean energy. CEA is a subsidiary of Intertek Group plc, a FTSE listed company based in London, with 1,000 test labs and 44,000 professionals working in 100+ countries.

Dow supplies a variety of proven materials, chemistries and technologies used in the manufacture of solar equipment and operation of assets, focusing on high-quality materials solutions that will provide the performance, durability and reliability manufacturers and end users need.

Leveraging more than 100 years of expertise, our technologies are enabling solar component manufacturers to explore novel and more efficient designs as well as providing end users with global reliability of supply to meet today’s and tomorrow’s renewable energy needs.

EliTe Solar (formerly ET Solar) is a global PV manufacturer, and a PV system service provider. EliTe Solar focuses on serving high-value markets and leveraging our core manufacturing assets in Southeast Asia. EliTe Solar operates 6GW of annual wafer capacity, as well as 4GW of cell, and 4GW module capacities across our global manufacturing fleet. We have focused on the 182mm wafer format for our cell and module products and offer both P-PERC and N-Type technologies to provide our customers with the most optimized solar solutions to meet the needs of residential, industrial, commercial, and utility clients.

From our base in Frankfurt, Germany, we design, build and ship PV measurement technology worldwide. We manufacture strictly in compliance with ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards. Our product portfolio ranges from advanced IV testers for the mass production of solar modules to solutions for the entire photovoltaic chain. All instruments are supplied with state-of-the-art halm software. Our in-house development ensures the seamless operation of the equipment and offers leading-edge data visualization, analysis, and monitoring.

In addition to well-known PV manufacturers, our clients include many testing institutes such as TÜV Rheinland, Fraunhofer ISE, TÜV Süd, CPVT, PV EL, ISFH, and CFV.

halm is owner-operated and looks back on more than 20 years of experience in the PV metrology field. Our unmatched technology combined with meticulous attention to detail, exceptional customer service and unlimited product upgradeability have made us the undisputed technology leader in our field.

Imperial Star Solar is the largest solar cell and module manufacturer in Cambodia with a fully integrated supply chain and over a decade of manufacturing excellence. We partner with industry leaders and provide robust, dependable solar modules and solutions that serve as industry benchmarks. The company validates its product performance through independent third party testing. Imperial Star Solar is dedicated to delivering reliable and cost-effective solar panels to the utility, commercial, and residential markets.

Imperial Star Solar serves global customers with high quality products and professional services. Over the years, we expanded our South East Asia manufacturing hub cell capacity to 2GW, module capacity to 2.5 GW. Our Texas facility will come online with 1.5GW module capacity in Q3 2024. By the end of 2024, Imperial Star Solar has shipped more than 3GW of high quality modules to its global clients and partners in US, Asia and European markets.

For almost 70 years, we have been the technological backbone of the industry and set standards – from diamond wire saws and industrial PERC solutions to precision measurement technology for solar modules. The vast majority of solar modules produced worldwide today are based on technologies developed by Meyer Burger.

Now we are taking the next step and have reinvented our business model: As a manufacturer of high-performance photovoltaic cells and modules, we are using the heterojunction/SmartWire technology we developed to lead photovoltaics into a new era worldwide. In terms of energy yield and efficiency, we define new standards and combine them with first-class design.

Our edge pushes us to innovate further every day. Innovations that go beyond our materials and craftsmanship and ensure that our product pays off. For everyone. For a solar future!

Qcells is one of the world’s leading clean energy companies, recognized for its established reputation as a manufacturer of high-performance, high-quality solar cells and modules, portfolio of intelligent storage systems, and growing international pipeline of large-scale renewable energy projects. Qcells also provides renewable electricity retail services and packages to end customers the world over. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea (Global Executive HQ) with its diverse international manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Malaysia, China, and South Korea. Qcells offers Completely Clean Energy through the full spectrum of photovoltaic products, storage solutions, renewable electricity contracting and large-scale solar power plants. Through its growing global business network spanning North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East, Qcells provides excellent services and long-term partnerships to its customers in the utility, commercial, governmental and residential markets.

Founded in 1997, Trina Solar is a world leading provider of integrated solutions for photovoltaic (PV) smart energy. It is mainly engaged in research and development, production and sales of PV modules, power stations and system products, PV power generation and operation and maintenance services, plus development and sales of intelligent microgrids and multi-energy systems, as well as the operation of energy cloud platforms. In June 2020, Trina Solar was listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board (STAR Market) of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), becoming the first company providing PV products and systems as well as smart energy to have gone public on the platform.

VON ARDENNE provides industrial equipment for vacuum coatings on materials such as glass, wafers, metal strip and polymer films.

The major international manufacturers of crystalline and thin-film solar modules use our highly productive equipment for their production. We are also cooperating closely with them to develop the next generation of modules.

We have acquired an excellent process know-how based on the more than 300 coating systems we have installed for crystalline solar cells and thin-film solar module providers. This expertise has been incorporated into the development of coating systems for the next generations of high-efficiency solar cells.