Founded in 2001 in Ontario Canada, Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ) operates as a global energy provider with successful business subsidiaries in 20 countries & regions on 6 continents. Canadian Solar is both a global leading manufacturer of solar PV modules and a provider of solar energy solutions, with over 13,000 employees globally. With state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Canada, China, Brazil and South East Asian countries, Canadian Solar now has module manufacturing capacity and has delivered more than 38 GW of premium quality solar modules to customers in over 150 countries in the past 18 years. To date, Canadian Solar has of solar power projects globally and of solar power plants that are in commercial operation, with a resale value of US$1.2 billion. In addition, Canadian Solar has a geographically diversified utility-scale solar power project pipeline around 10 GWp, with projects being developed in the U.S., Japan, Latin America,Australia, EMEA, South East Asia, India and China. Of the total project pipeline, 2.9 GWp of projects are at late-stage development and have secured energy offtake agreements. In 2018, Canadian Solar achieved a revenue of US$3.74 billion, Meanwhile, Canadian Solar was listed as the Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Tier 1 Module Manufacturer in terms of bankability for Q4 2018, and was named as Top 3 Global Utility-scale Solar PV Project Developer for 2017 by GTM Research. Canadian Solar Founder and CEO Dr. Shawn Qu blogs as a LinkedIn Influencer at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnqu/. Canadian Solar is making the difference by delivering more clean, safe and affordable solar energy to the world.
Canadian Solar Inc is a Canadian solar power company. It is an integrated provider of solar power products, services, and system solutions. The company engages in designing, developing and manufacturing solar ingots, wafers, cells, modules and other solar power products. It operates through two business segments MSS segment and Energy segment. The MSS segment involves the design, development, manufacturing, and sale of solar power products, including standard solar modules and specialty solar products. Its Energy segment consists of solar power project development and sale and EPC and development services. Most of the revenue is earned from the MSS segment. Geographically, it derives majority revenue from Asia and also has a presence in the Americas and Europe and other regions.
