- Announced by Haiyan Huang, EVP & CSO at Astronergy, at the 2nd China PV Green Supply Chain Conference held on August 17th, the company has set its goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 with three time milestones in line with Astronergy’s ESG governance goals.
- Astronergy is a world leading and high quality solar panel manufacturer with 55GW capacity.
- Yanchi, their latest of 8 new factories, focuses on the manufacturing of high-efficiency n-type TOPCon PV modules with adoptions of world-frontier manufacturing equipment and high-tech processing techs. Read more
The China Green PV Conference was held by the municipal government of Jiaxing City and the Committee of China Green Supply Chain Alliance (China ECOPV Alliance) with main major industry stakeholders and decision makers in attendance.
Themed ‘Green Sustainable Manufacturing’, the speech given by Haiyan Huang at the event announced Astronergy’s detailed sustainable development roadmap with the years 2028, 2035 and 2050 as time nodes on ESG-related issues, clarifying the company’s goals on major issues of addressing climate change, natural resource management, labor and human rights, occupational health and safety, business ethics, supply chain management, biodiversity conservation, and promising to carbon neutralized Astronergy in 2050.
According to Huang’s speech, Astronergy takes ‘From Zero to Zero’ as the ultimate aim of all its products, strives to green product life cycle from the very beginning of product design to the supply chain and manufacturing, and so to produce PV modules with zero carbon emissions. In 2050, there will be 8 manufacturing bases of Astronergy finished zero-carbon upgradations.
What’s more, to be and not only aims to be the most competitive modules suppliers worldwide, Astronergy stands high to act as an advocator on sustainable development concepts to its upstream and downstream partners.
From 2022 to 2050, all the core suppliers of Astronergy are asked to pass ISO 14001/45001 certification and accept due diligence audits and social environmental standard assessments, to join hands to build a green value chain.
At the same time, Astronergy is also planning to unleash more potential of PV modules in biodiversity conservation, promoting the construction of a clean and low-carbon energy self-circulation system in nature reserves in China and even globally, and safeguarding the authenticity and integrity of ecosystems.
Astronergy promises in its sustainable development strategy that it will support at least 100 ecological power station projects and help over 10,000 farmers to earn more money through green PV projects.
Author: Bryan Groenendaal
