China’s Dahai Solar building 2 GW solar panel plant in Romania – report

The plant is expected to become fully operational in the second half of the third quarter of 2024, news portal Economica.net quoted Dahai Solar as saying on Wednesday.

Dahai Solar hopes to use the country as a sales and production hub for Eastern Europe, as well as a springboard into other regional markets.

The company’s Romanian plant will produce monofacial and bifacial tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPcon ) photovoltaic panels with a capacity of up to 690 W.

Owned by China's state-owned industrial conglomerate Shandong Dahai Group, Dahai Solar boasts a 5 GW high-efficiency solar module production capacity and 10 GW silicon production capacity, according to information published on its website.

The company did not respond to a SeeNews e-mail seeking comment by the time this article was published.

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