A Chinese renewables firm has unveiled plans to build two crystalline silicon battery-manufacturing plants in the country with a total investment of CNY12 billion ($1.8bn).
Tongwei Solar (Hefei) Co., Ltd., said one of the plants will be located in the Hefei High-Tech Industrialised Zone, in central China’s Anhui Province and the other in Chengdu’s Xihanggang Economic Development Zone, in the southwestern Sichuan Province.
Tongwei said each facility would have an annual production capacity of 10GW. Each of the plants would comprise 60 fully automated production lines for “high-efficiency single crystal batteries”.
Construction of the Hefei plant has already started and the Chengdu facility is set to break ground this month. Both plants are expected to start commercial operations in the next three to five years.
Tongwei currently produces 6GW of silicon PV batteries each year.