LONGi Solar is one of only eight of SolarPower Europe’s over 200 members that decided to become active in our highest membership category as a so called Sponsor Member. SPE talked to LONGi Solar’s VP Sales Gerald Müller - who has established and is leading LONGi Solar’s European Headquarters in Frankfurt/Main, Germany - about the company, its strategy on high-quality monocrystalline technology, and its views on the European market.

Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi Solar Technology Co., Ltd. ("LONGi Solar") held a press conference in Japan on February 28, 2018, at which the company announced that it had achieved a record 23.6% conversion efficiency with its monocrystalline passivated emitter rear contact (PERC) solar cells, as certified by China's National Center of Supervision and Inspection on Solar Photovoltaic Product Quality (CPVT). The solar cell manufacturer not only broke its own record, but continues to be the world's leading producer of monocrystalline PERC solar cells with the highest efficiency.

On January 18, 2018, LONGi Solar announced that, according to a test conducted by TUV-SUD, the independent third-party certification test organization, the company's 60-cell PERC module achieved a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 20.41%, a new world record for a monocrystalline PERC module.