Company Summary
Ontario, Canada-based Canadian Solar Inc. is a leading manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules and a provider of solar energy and battery energy storage solutions. The company also develops utility-scale solar power and battery-energy storage projects with a geographically diversified pipeline in various stages of development. The company was incorporated in Canada in 2001. Subsequently, in Nov 2006, the company came out with its maiden public offering.
The company's products include a range of solar modules built to general specifications for use in a wide range of residential, commercial and industrial solar power generation systems. Specialty solar products consist of customized solar modules that its customers incorporate into their own products and complete specialty products, such as portable solar home systems.
Canadian Solar operates through eight wholly-owned manufacturing subsidiaries. The company sells its products to customers worldwide, with operations spread across Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, Singapore, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. The company has active solar projects in the states of California, North Carolina and Massachusetts.
Over the past 22 years, Canadian Solar has successfully delivered more than 118 gigawatts (GW) of premium quality modules to customers in over 150 countries around the world. Since entering the project development business in 2010, Canadian Solar has developed, built, and connected around 10 gigawatt-power (GWp) of solar power projects and 3.3 gigawatt-hour (GWh) of battery-energy storage projects across the world.