Yingli Solar Overview
Headquarters: Baoding, China
Founded: 1998
Workforce: Approximately 9,217
Company Working: Yingli Solar manufacturers silicon solar cells and photovoltaic products, fans, thermal power generation products, controllers, and inverters. It has exported more than 65 million solar panels to countries including Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, France and United States. The company has operations in countries such as Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands and the U.K.
Yingli offers solar power solutions for residential, commercial business, power plant and off-grid applications. In China, the company has more than 30 regional subsidiaries and branch offices and has distributed more than 15 GW of solar panels to customers, worldwide. Some of the subsidiaries of the company are Yingli China, Hainan Yingli, Yingli Tianjin, Yingli Lixian, and Yingli Hengshui’s HNTE. The company is one of the members of the Global Silicon Module Super League that supplies modern solar PV’s worldwide.
Yingli Solar is a part of WWF Climate Savers Initiative that spearheads the global shift towards low carbon economy and is committed to reducing its operational carbon footprint.
Strategy
Yingli Solar sees its key strategy as targeting solar power plant operators, developers, operators wholesalers and PV system integrators around the world as its key customers.. The company has its solar projects in China where the PV modules are used. It is determined to reduce the cost of manufacturing PV panels and improve the efficiency of the PV cells and solar panels, through consistent research and development. Besides, the company focuses on R&D activities in PV cells so as to compete on the parameters of efficiency and production capacity., the company has four state-of-the-art manufacturing campuses that focus on solar cell production and module assembly. To offer better services to the clients in the European region, Yingli Green Energy established the photovoltaic industry’s largest R&D and after-sales service center, which is located in Madrid, Spain.
