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Gold Partners

EliTe Solar

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.

Heliene

Heliene is one of North America’s fastest-growing domestic module manufacturers serving the utility-scale, commercial, and residential markets. With an in-house logistics team and remarkably responsive support staff, Heliene delivers competitively priced, high performance solar modules precisely when and where customers need them to accelerate North America’s clean energy transition. Founded in 2010, Heliene is recognized as a highly bankable Tier 1 module manufacturer and has production facilities located in Ontario, Minnesota and Florida.

Imperial Star

Imperial Star Solar is a leading solar module manufacturer recognized as a Top Performer by Kiwa PVEL. Committed to making American-made solar the most powerful and reliable choice, we are set to achieve 6 GW of PV module capacity by 2024, including a state-of-the-art 2 GW capacity module facility in Houston. Founded by experts with over a decade of Tier 1 manufacturing experience, we maintain full control over our supply chain—from wafers to panels—ensuring the highest quality in every product. With global manufacturing bases in the USA, Indonesia, and Laos, we are dedicated to advancing sustainable energy solutions, strengthening the global supply chain, and driving the transition to a climate-positive future.

Kiwa

With over a decade of experience between Kiwa PVEL and Kiwa PI Berlin, the Kiwa Group offers a comprehensive portfolio of quality assurance, testing, inspection, and certification services for the solar industry. Our integrated service offerings cover the entire supply chain, providing technical solutions for mitigating risk, optimizing financing, and improving solar and energy storage systems performance throughout the project lifecycle. From testing over 5,000 module types in our labs to on-site visits at over 1,000 factories, learn how we are creating trust and driving progress at kiwa.com/solar.

T1 Energy

T1 Energy Inc. (NYSE: TE) is an energy solutions provider building an integrated U.S. supply chain for solar and batteries. In December 2024, T1 completed a transformative transaction, positioning the Company as one of the leading solar manufacturing companies in the United States, with a complementary solar and battery storage strategy. Based in the United States with plans to expand its operations in America, the Company is also exploring value optimization opportunities across its portfolio of assets in Europe.

Silver Partners

DYCM Power

Recent developments in U.S. trade policy have brought about new tariffs on foreign-manufactured solar panels, a move aimed at bolstering the domestic solar industry. As a domestic solar module manufacturer, DYCM Power is strategically positioned to thrive under these new regulations. Our commitment to American manufacturing ensures that our operations are not subject to these tariffs, allowing us to offer competitive pricing and reliable supply chains to our customers.

Emmvee

Founded in 1992, Emmvee is a leading solar PV module manufacturer with over 30 years of expertise and a global footprint spanning India, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa​. It operates state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities with 10 GW of annual module production capacity and 5 GW TOPCon solar cell production capacity, producing high-efficiency monofacial and bifacial modules built on advanced Mono PERC and TOPCon technologies​. Emmvee’s fully automated production lines and stringent quality controls ensure its panels meet international standards (IEC, UL)​, underscoring the company’s commitment to top product quality and reliability. Recognized as a Top Performer in Kiwa PVEL’s 2024 PV Module Reliability Scorecard​, Emmvee delivers the proven reliability, innovation, and bankable high-performance modules demanded by the U.S. solar industry, making it an ideal partner for utility-scale projects.

Fellow Energy

Founded in 2020 in Gaziantep, Türkiye, Fellow Energy is a locally owned solar energy technology manufacturer focused on producing high-quality and affordable solar modules and cells.

As a Tier 1 module producer and Fortune 500 listed company, it is recognized within the global industry for the quality, reliability and innovation of its products, being one of the first companies in Türkiye to build a fully integrated local solar cell production line, based on the latest technology. The company covers every step from wafer slicing to cell processing, becoming not only a solar panel manufacturer but a complete solar technology provider.

Combining local strength with a global vision, Fellow Energy offers reliable and sustainable solar solutions for both Türkiye and the global market.

Hounen Solar

Hounen Solar America was incorporated in November 2022, with a total investment of USD 33 million, the company establishing its U.S. presence with a 200,720-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility located in Orangeburg, South Carolina, serving as a dedicated hub for the production and wholesale distribution of high-performance solar panels.

Since its founding, Hounen has played an important role in advancing the U.S. clean energy landscape. The company is committed to delivering high-quality and high-efficiency solar products designed for residential, commercial and utility-scale applications. This commitment to quality has earned the trust of partners nationwide, enabling Hounen to supply solar modules to a growing number of projects across states including Texas, California and New Jersey, supporting local clean energy deployment and nationwide decarbonization goals.

Intertek CEA

Intertek CEA 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).

 

Kosol Energie

Founded in 1984 as a renewable energy company, Kosol Energie has evolved into a Tier 1 solar solutions provider, delivering high-performance, reliable, and proven photovoltaic solutions. The company leverages advanced G12 & G12R N-type bifacial panel technology, backed by over 15 years of manufacturing expertise and an annual in-house PV module production capacity of 3.10 GW.

We ensure a fully transparent supply chain with a Non-Chinese Bill of Materials (BOM), supported by triple IEC testing and 100% traceability. Our products comply with UL, FPA, and FEOC regulations and are AVL listed. All PV modules are UL and CEC listed, IEC certified, and manufactured under stringent ISO standards, with validation from external quality partners such as CEA and PVEL.

Kosol Energie remains committed to innovation, superior quality, and accelerating the global transition to sustainable energy. We further reinforce this commitment by offering a 30-year insured performance warranty on PV panels, underwritten by Munich Re.

Leapting Technology

Leapting Technology is a high-tech company focused on creating intelligent robots for PV and industrial applications. It develops solutions covering the entire PV power plant lifecycle, offering a system centred on three main areas: automated module installation, smart module cleaning and unmanned inspections. The company’s key products include an automatic navigation module mounting robot, an automatic G1 cleaning robot and a robot for unmanned solar project inspection. These products incorporate autonomous driving algorithms, precise artificial pose recognition and real-time digital twin systems, operating on a dedicated big data cloud platform that supports device connectivity, real-time monitoring, intelligent decision-making and remote control.

To date, Leapting has provided intelligent solutions for a number of large-scale ground-mounted PV projects worldwide, serving a total capacity of 12 GW.

Nextpower

Nextpower™ (Nasdaq: NXT) designs, engineers, and delivers an advanced energy technology platform for solar power plants, innovating across structural, electrical, and digital domains. Our integrated solutions are designed to streamline project execution, increase energy yield and long-term reliability, and enhance customer ROI. Building on over a decade of technology and market leadership, the company delivers intelligent power generation systems and services to meet rapidly expanding global electricity demand. Nextpower partners with the world’s leading energy companies to power what’s next. Learn more at www.nextpower.com.

Qcells

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.

SEG Solar

Founded in 2021, SEG is a leading vertically integrated PV manufacturer headquartered in Houston, Texas, dedicated to delivering reliable and cost-effective solar modules to the utility, commercial and residential markets. As of the end of 2025, the company had shipped over 7.5 GW of modules worldwide and had achieved a module production capacity of 6.5 GW.

STS

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.

Thornova Solar

Thornova Solar – US Made. Global Expertise. Reliable Returns.

Founded in 2022, Thornova Solar is a U.S.-affiliated, FEOC-compliant PV module manufacturer with integrated supply chain capabilities spanning silicon wafers, solar cells, and modules—leveraging U.S.-made polysilicon. The company delivers high-performance solutions across utility-scale, commercial & industrial, and distributed generation markets, supported by continuous R&D innovation and advanced manufacturing technologies.

Thornova operates a flexible, global production footprint with facilities in the United States, Kenya, and Indonesia, enabling customers to optimize domestic content strategies and maximize IRA-related incentives while maintaining cost competitiveness.

With state-of-the-art automated production and rigorous quality standards—including full supply chain traceability—Thornova modules are engineered for long-term reliability, strong energy yield, and bankability in demanding project environments.

A strong U.S. presence, combined with local warehousing, logistics, and technical support, ensures predictable delivery and execution for time-sensitive projects. Thornova’s commitment to performance is further reinforced by proven product durability and industry-recognized reliability testing results.

By combining domestic manufacturing pathways with global expertise, Thornova Solar enables developers, EPCs, and investors to achieve optimized project economics and reliable long-term returns.

www.thornova-solar.com

Trinasolar

Founded in 1997, Trinasolar is a global energy solutions provider of PV products, energy storage and digital energy services. As of the end of 2025, the company had shipped more than 320 GW of modules globally and empowers its North American partners to achieve their domestic content goals with high-performance, domestically assembled solar solutions.

Trina consistently receives technical and brand recognition from independent institutes and third parties worldwide, underlining the PV market’s confidence in its product value, technological innovation and financial performance. The company achieved a 100% score in the BNEF Bankability Survey for 8 years in a row, secured the #1 spot in Wood Mackenzie’s 2025 Global Solar Module Manufacturer Ranking and earned “Overall Highest Achiever” by RETC for 5 consecutive years. It has also attained the highest ranking, AAA, 5 times in a row in the PVTech Bankability Ratings report and has maintained “Top Performer” status from Kiwa PVEL for 11 consecutive years.

Trinasolar’s global business footprint currently delivers clean energy to more than 180 countries and regions around the world.

Waaree Solar Americas

Waaree is a global leader in solar energy, boasting the largest presence outside of China. Our commitment to excellence, sustainability, and diversity drives us to harness solar power for a greener future. With operations across multiple continents, we deliver cutting-edge solar solutions worldwide. At Waaree Solar Americas, we take pride in our US manufacturing capabilities, contributing significantly to a sustainable and energy-independent future. Our reliable, efficient solar products support sustainable development and are backed by the latest technological advancements. We believe that diversity and inclusivity are key to innovation and success, and our workforce reflects this commitment. By the end of 2024, Waaree plans to set up a 3 GW module manufacturing facility in the USA, reinforcing our leadership in the solar industry and our dedication to the US market.

Bronze Partners