According to local media reports in Azerbaijan, on August 31, President Aliyev of the Republic of Azerbaijan met with Xie Yi, founder and chairman of Sichuan Heguang Tong Cheng Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. in Tianjin, China, and the two sides exchanged views on future cooperation.
According to local media reports, the two sides met to discuss the establishment of a modern factory in the Alat Free Economic Zone for the production of solar panels. And plans to export a significant portion of the plant's output to the global market .
According to public information, many Chinese enterprises, including China Energy Construction, Datang Group, TBEA and Huantai Energy, have signed cooperation agreements with Azerbaijan on new energy projects such as wind power and photovoltaic. However, in the field of photovoltaic main links, there is no photovoltaic enterprise to publicly disclose the capacity layout plan in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan is located in the southeastern part of Transcaucasia at the junction of the Eurasian continent, with an annual sunshine time of 2400-3200 hours, which has a natural advantage in the development of photovoltaic industry . As a traditional oil and gas exporter, Azerbaijan is currently accelerating its energy transformation and plans to increase the proportion of available energy generation to 30% by 2030. According to the
data, Sichuan Heguang Tongcheng Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in March 2023. Its founder is Xie Yi, the former chairman of Tongwei. The company focuses on the manufacture, production and sale of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells, and is the "only two" local photovoltaic enterprises independently cultivated by Sichuan Province. According to its official website, the company's initial planned capacity is 40 GW.