Partners

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 US headquarters 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, IPP’s, 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 250 GW of solar and 40 GWh of storage projects in over 80 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 (www.intertek.com).

Huasun Energy is an innovative company specializing in the development and industrialisation of ultra-high efficiency HJT technology. Its excellent product performance and unique innovation capability has resulted in the company being ranked as a Tier 1 manufacturer by BNEF and a ‘Top Performer’ by PVEL.

Huasun now owns 20GW capacity of high-efficiency HJT products, ranking as the largest HJT manufacturer in the world.

Founded in 2005, JA Solar is a manufacturer of high-performance photovoltaic products. With multiple manufacturing bases and 13 sales subsidiaries around the world, the company’s business covers silicon wafers, cells, modules and PV power stations.

Its products are available in 165 countries and regions and are used extensively in ground-mounted power plants, commercial & industrial and residential rooftop PV systems. As of the end of Q1 2024, the company’s cumulative shipments had reached 201GW.

Established in 2010, STS is a leading Technical Advisory services company and ISO/IEC17020-accredited inspection body, specialized in the solar and energy storage sectors. Through our mission to safeguard our clients’ investments in renewable energy, we help build a more sustainable world for future generations.

With a global presence, our on-site expertise extends across the supply chain and technologies, ensuring we deliver technical and advisory solutions that are relevant to solve our clients’ challenges in a context of significant investments’ risks exposure. By delivering exceptional service, reflected in our industry-leading Net Promoter Score, we strengthen our position as the trusted partner for renewable energy buyers globally.

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.