Top 10 photovoltaic panel exports

Today, China’s share in all the manufacturing stages of solar panels (such as polysilicon, ingots, wafers, cells and modules) exceeds 80%. This is more than double China’s share of global PV demand. In addition, the country is home to the world’s 10 top suppliers of solar PV manufacturing equipment.

The 5 most lucrative exporters of solar power products are mainland China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Germany and Japan. By value, that quintet of leading exporters earned nearly three-quarters (72.6%) from solar power products exported in 2022.

The revenue of the top 10 module manufacturers exceeded 700 billion yuan and the shipments exceeded 400GW in 2023, almost double the total of the top 20 in 2022. The total module shipments of the top 5 manufacturers nearly reached 300GW in 2023.

InfoLink estimated that the top 10 manufacturers shipped around 252 GW of modules, an 166% year-on-year increase. The top four dominated 60-65% of global shipment volume, heightening that the big stays big. The top five module makers in 2022 were Longi, Jinko Solar, Trina Solar, JA Solar, and Canadian Solar.

In addition to the map, we provide a table of the world's top 10 exporters of assembled PV cells and their corresponding top 5 importers and the value of the export in thousands of USD. As can be seen in Table 1 , the top exporters are mainly from Europe or Asia.

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