JA Solar / Nur Syamira Aizuddin

A Solar was founded on May 2005 and was publicly listed on February 2007. They have been a world’s leader in solar cell production and shipments. The solar panel is a kind of renewable energy everyone is chasing on the 20th century, in order to reduce the usage of non-renewable energy such as oil. The current solar panel is the newest technology which is N-type solar that is not affected by Light Induced Degradation (LID) and has higher efficiency rating due to factoring out LID over time. But over time, there are some stuff that can be improved such as microcracks on the cell, dust buld-up on the panels, crack backsheet, and poor connection on solar string. All this can be fixed withing some physical improvement of the solar panel itself such as a drainage flow for water. As for the others, it can be provided within some regular checkups on the panel such as X-Ray test, and the usage of IR Camera while installing. The next thing is, it can also go through damp heat and thermal cycling reliability test before the solar panel is packed and distributed to the customers. As far as this company goes, it already penetrated the market but within all this improvement, it can widen their market and the value of the solar panel itself. The price might go up a little bit due to the improvement that is needed but compared a low price with a low quality of goods after installation, and a high quality with a decent price, I prefer the latter.