Hanergy unveils roof-top power solution for home uses
- By Chen Boyuan
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China's clean energy leader Hanergy took another step forward in solar power generation when it unveiled thin-film rooftop photovoltaic cells designed for home use on Saturday, March 21, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
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| Hanergy launches its flagship customer experience store in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on March 21, 2015. [Photo by Chen Boyuan / China.org.cn] |
![Hanergy launches its flagship customer experience store in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on March 21, 2015. [Photo by Chen Boyuan / China.org.cn]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20150323/d02788e9b7261679ed1e01.jpg "Hanergy launches its flagship customer experience store in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on March 21, 2015. [Photo by Chen Boyuan / China.org.cn]")
The product line includes three series that vary both in appearance and construction: classic, elegance and premium. Each of the three series features four power generation capacities ranging from 1.5KW to 5KW and two designs intended for flat roofs and pitched roofs.
According to Hanergy, these PV cells are all manufactured in modular blocks, meaning that installation and maintenance of the products will both be streamlined. "It represents progress compared with the old design-customization-production process," said Liu Ming, President and CEO of Hanergy Solar, a subsidiary of parent company Hanergy Holdings.
The new rooftop PV cells will allow individual users to generate electricity for their own use and sell the surplus to the national power grid, although the details of how to actually sell excess electricity to the State Grid are still only known to few, and the system is still in need of solid required regulatory backups.
Hanergy did not elaborate about why it launched such products and its first consumer retail showroom in Chengdu rather than at the company's headquarters in Beijing. But Liu said the products' features "made the decision," meaning that building-integrated rooftop PV generation has larger market potential in southwest China, which has fewer developed areas and more scattered homes and residential buildings. There is also speculation that the thin-film rooftop power solution may be helpful in relief and recovery of earthquakes, which happen more frequently in that region.
The product launch was evidence of Hanergy's continuous efforts to dominate the residential solar energy market in recent years. The company previously focused primarily on PV solutions for the industrial sector, long after it shifted its strategic attention from hydropower and wind power, which were widely recognized as the company's cornerstones.
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