{"id":416,"date":"2019-12-25T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T05:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/?p=416"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:09:58","slug":"canadian-solar-achieves-commercial-operation-on-1-98-mwp-project-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/2019\/416.html","title":{"rendered":"CANADIAN SOLAR ACHIEVES COMMERCIAL OPERATION ON 1.98 MWP PROJECT IN TAIWAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><location value=\"LU\/ca.on.guelph\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">GUELPH, Ontario<\/location>, <chron>Dec. 23, 2019<\/chron> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiansolar.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><org value=\"CSIQ\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Canadian Solar Inc.<\/org><\/a> (the &#8220;Company&#8221;, or &#8220;<org value=\"CSIQ\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Canadian Solar<\/org>&#8220;) (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world&#8217;s largest solar power companies, today announced that it has reached commercial operation on a 1.98 MWp solar power plant in <location value=\"LC\/tw;LB\/eas\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Taiwan<\/location>. <\/p>\n<p>The Hualien Rongkai solar project achieved commercial operation on <chron>December 13th<\/chron> and is powered by 6,384 pieces of <org value=\"CSIQ\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Canadian Solar<\/org><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiansolar.com\/solarPanels\/detail\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">modules<\/a> which are certified by the Voluntary Product Certification (VPC) and locally manufactured in <org value=\"CSIQ\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Canadian Solar&#8217;s<\/org><location value=\"LC\/tw;LB\/eas\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Taiwan<\/location> module plant. The project is expected to generate approximately 2,505 MWh of clean, solar electricity per year, which will be purchased by <org>TaiPower Inc.<\/org> under a 20-year feed-in-tariff contract at the rate of NTD 4.922 <money>(US$0.16)<\/money> per kWh.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. <person>Shawn Qu<\/person>, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of <org value=\"CSIQ\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Canadian Solar<\/org> commented, &#8220;We are pleased to announce the completion of our first project in <location value=\"LC\/tw;LB\/eas\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Taiwan<\/location> where we are managing an early stage pipeline of 43 MWp. <org value=\"CSIQ\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Canadian Solar<\/org> has had significant success in markets where we have local manufacturing and project development presence. We expect to expand on that success and continue to look for opportunities to grow the development pipeline in <location value=\"LC\/tw;LB\/eas\" idsrc=\"xmltag.org\">Taiwan<\/location>.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #77777a; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Noto Sans', Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #77777a; text-transform: none; line-height: inherit; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Noto Sans', Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-family: Noto Sans;\">SOURCE <\/span><\/span>Canadian Solar Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/investors.canadiansolar.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/canadian-solar-achieves-commercial-operation-198-mwp-project\">http:\/\/investors.canadiansolar.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/canadian-solar-achieves-commercial-operation-198-mwp-project<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUELPH, Ontario, Dec. 23, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Canadian Solar Inc. 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