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CHANGZHOU, China, Aug. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Trina Solar has recently published its 2019-20 report on corporate social

responsibility. The report, covering two years, is highly comprehensive,

prepared in line with the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards 2018 issued by

the Global Sustainability Standards Board. It details the company's many

practices and achievements in relation to CSR and sustainability, such as

corporate governance, technology leadership, product innovation, green

sustainable development, contributing to society and responding to COVID-19.

Click the link, download the report:

http://static.trinasolar.com/sites/default/files/TrinaSolar_CSRreport_2019-2020_EN.pdf

Corporate transparence and regular information disclosure

On June 10 last year Trina Solar issued its first A-Shares on the Shanghai

Sci-Tech Innovation Board, also known as the STAR MARKET, becoming the first PV

company listed there. In the disclosure period of the CSR report, and from when

the company listed, it made 108 interim declarations and issued 3 regular

reports. The highly efficient, transparent and regularized information

disclosure system, with its complete and accurate declarations, contributes to

the company's excellent reputation in the market and more broadly for being

highly scrupulous.

Technology leadership

From 2010 to 2020 the State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology

operated by Trina Solar had total investment of about 10 billion RMB in R&D

funding. It has become a world-class technical innovation platform. Last year

the company's spending on R&D rose 22.29% over that of 2019, when such spending

rose 23.73%. At the end of June 2021 the company and the State Key Laboratory

of PV Science and Technology had broken 21 world records with respect to solar

cell conversion efficiency and PV module output power.

210 Vertex ultra-high power modules leading industry development

Since 2019 Trina Solar has taken the lead in promoting the research and

development of 210mm modules. Last year Trina Solar prepared to launch the

Vertex ultra-high power modules worldwide and take the lead to realize their

industrialization, leading the industry to formally enter the PV 600W+

ultra-high power era. Trina Solar's 210mm ultra-high power modules and

system-integrated new technology platform have pointed the way ahead for the PV

industry.

Excellent performance in sustainability

According to Trina Solar 2020 Sustainable Development Goals, compared with the

base year 2015, for consolidated energy consumption per MW module, Trina Solar

set the goal of reduction in percentage was 10%. This CSR report disclosed fell

29.5% in 2020 compared with 2015.

For one production unit of each electricity power produced (MW), the company

pledged to reduce electricity consumption by 15% and water consumption by 10%

in 2020 . The report disclosed that last year these targets were well and truly

met, electricity consumption falling 59.7% compared with 2015 and water

consumption falling 50.6% using the same benchmark.

In 2019, the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in domestic China reached

46% compared with 2015, and last year the performance was even better, a

reduction of 68.6% compared with 2015 being met.

By the first quarter of 2021, Trina Solar had shipped more than 70GW+ of

modules, which can generate about 90 billion kWh of clean-energy power and

reduced CO2 emissions by 94.22 million tons per year, equivalent to planting

5.1 billion trees.

In 2019 clean-energy generation capacity of solar power plants owned by Trina

Solar in China exceeded the power consumption of all the company's domestic

manufacturing plants and R&D centers by 14 million kWh. Last year the

corresponding figure was almost 30 times as much, 412 million kWh.

Trina Solar has joined the global Science Based Targets initiative and signed

the Business Ambition for 1.5°C pledge. This once again underlines the

company's commitment to helping to limit the rise in the global temperature to

1.5°C through its own actions to cut emissions.

Taking tough measures to combat COVID-19 but minimizing impact on business

operations

After the outbreak of COVID-19 last year Gao Jifan, chairman of Trina Solar,

took immediate action to buy anti-pandemic supplies in China and elsewhere, and

donated to pandemic outbreak centers.

Trina Solar also set up an internal emergency response mechanism as well as

employee care programs to ensure both control and prevention of the pandemic

while adhering to normal business operations as practically and safely as

possible.

Speaking of the company's performance and the opportunities and challenges

ahead, Gao said, "We believe that an era of high growth in new energy is upon

us. Trina Solar will remain steadfast in fulfilling its mission, committed to

greater responsibility, and always giving back to society."

As a world leader in PV and smart energy total solution provider, Trina Solar

has always prided itself on its diligence in fulfilling its corporate social

responsibility. Since 2011 it has rigorously abided by CSR reporting standards,

publishing reports disclosing Trina Solar's strategies, practices and

performance in the field of CSR.

Trina Solar: https://www.trinasolar.com/en-glb/about_trina_solar

SOURCE  Trina Solar Co., Ltd