The US Renewable Energy Testing Center (RETC) has released its "Photovoltaic Module Index Report” (PVMI) for 2020. Having won a "High Achievers" award in 2019, LONGi has once again carried off the award for outstanding performance following comprehensive evaluation of global photovoltaic modules by RETC.

LONGi has successfully shipped 7MW of high-efficiency Hi-MO 5 solar modules to the Southampton port in the UK by sea, the mode of transport validating the reliability, durability and cost advantages of the M10 182mm wafer based module.

In a significant development marking the end of 2020, two large-scale floating solar projects in Vietnam were commissioned in December. They were the 35 MWp Ho Tam Bo floating solar power plant and the 35 MWp Ho Gia Hoet 1 floating PV plant. The two projects have been set up on Gia Hoet 1 and Tam Bo irrigation lakes, in Quang Thanh commune, Chau Duc district.

As it expands its presence in Africa, LONGi has announced the appointment of Maryzad, a Saudi-Egyptian company founded in 2012, as a new major distributor and partner, leveraging its strengths in the field of solar, alternative and renewable energy.

On December 25, numerous government leaders and industry experts gathered at the  3.66MW photovoltaic power generation project at the Meixi Lake Water Purification Plant in Hunan Province, to jointly view new development opportunities for the advanced application mode of "Photovoltaic +". As the sole module supplier for this project, LONGi supplied 3.66MW of its modules to the Hunan Xiangxin Xiaohao New Energy Technology Company.

LONGi, the world leading solar technology company, has announced that it has exclusively supplied 200MW of its Hi-MO 5 bifacial modules to the China Energy Engineering Group’s Northwest Electric Power Test Research Institute for a solar project in Ningxia, China. The project, developed by the Ningxia Zhongke Ka New Energy Research Institute, has already entered the construction and installation stage.

With the delivery of 100MW of the Hi-MO5 bifacial module in mid-November 2020, the global cumulative shipments of LONGi bifacial modules reached 10GW. The value of the bifacial module has been widely recognized by the industry under LONGi’s leading promotion, furthermore bifacial module has become a mainstream solar product for utility-scale PV plants with an ever increasing market share. This paper will provide a detailed review of the development history and milestones for the LONGi bifacial module.