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We at Trina Solar have created value through innovation, quality, accountability, teamwork, and creativity, principles which together comprise the core of our business model. It’s important for us to establish strong relationships with like-minded partners such as the Lotus F1 Team. Together, we are committed to leading sustainable development, whether it’s bringing people clean and reliable energy, or building a greener future for Formula 1 racing.
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An environmentally responsible approach to performance
Welcome to our world
Wherever the sun shines on our planet, our mission is to provide people with abundant, clean and reliable energy at an affordable cost.
From the company’s establishment in 1997, Trina Solar has established a set of core values to achieve our mission. Since then we’ve created value through innovation, quality, accountability, teamwork, and creativity, which comprise the core of our business model. With this, we’ve established strong relationships with like-minded businesses, leaders and partners such as the Lotus F1 Team, with whom we have many synergies.
As economic conditions have changed over the last decade, we remain committed to the principles of sustainable development – a commitment that has become an inseparable part of our business philosophy and one that we proudly share with the Lotus F1 Team. We continue to develop our business with the ultimate goal of creating a favourable environment based on bedrock foundation of strong values shared by everyone. As a socially and ethically responsible corporate citizen, our products are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. As such, we have conducted a series of activities to improve the quality of life for our employees by helping their families and the community. These pledges form a major part of the foundation for our long-term success and continuing innovation.
Jifan Gao, Trina Solar CEO
Mark Kingsley, Trina Solar CCO
“F1 is a team and partnership driven sport. It represents a unique engineering ecosystem that has enabled F1 to pioneer the use of high performance materials, remote sensing and energy storage to extract the most from automotive powertrains.
“These environmentally beneficial gains have subsequently been scaled to everyday autos. Our teams at Trina draw inspiration from these F1 examples as we pursue similar goals in order to ensure the solar solutions we create with our partners accelerate their ability to replace fossil fuels.“
Partners of the Lotus F1 Team
Why the Lotus F1 Team? We proudly share with the Lotus F1 Team the values of innovation, technology, quality, efficiency and a commitment to promoting green technologies.
What does the partnership mean?
While Formula One continues to introduce more efficient technologies and regulations driving sustainability, Trina Solar have joined forces with the Lotus F1 Team to support them in their commitment to remain carbon-neutral when it comes to logistics, car design and production.
Trina Solar have committed to the Plant-for-the-Planet Children's Initiative that is committed to the global reduction of greenhouse gases through the planting of trees. The initiative was inspired by UNEP Billion Tree Campaign that has recently been handed over to the responsibility of the children. They aim to plant 1,000 billion trees until 2020 to absorb carbon emissions and to empower more than one million children to become active against the climate crisis. Some 100,000 children in 193 countries are the leading lights of this campaign of sustainability for future generations, and Trina Solar’s participation will see 27,000 trees planted over three years in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Congo, Namibia, Malaysia, Brazil and China. The overall reduction in CO2 from this activity is estimated to be more than 220,000 kilograms a year, a figure that will offset the emissions from the Lotus F1 Team’s cars on track at Grands Prix over the course of five seasons.
Trina Solar and Plant for the Planet
Trina Solar will plant 27,000 trees over the next three years to offset the emissions of the Lotus F1 Team’s car
“We are proud to support the Plant for the Planet Children’s Initiative and we look forward to hosting the children at our headquarters so that we can share with them the importance of solar energy. Forging and fostering lifelong partnerships is key to how we operate and we will work very closely with Plant-for-the-Planet and the Lotus F1 Team to contribute to this cause by offsetting the track activities at Grands Prix of the Lotus F1 Team. We are already involved in initiatives in developing countries, aimed at providing remote communities
with electricity and therefore independence, and Plant-for-the-Planet offers us another opportunity to promote and support sustainability and a responsible approach to energy consumption.”
Mark Kingsley, Trina Solar CCO
Trina Solar and Plant for the Planet
Trina Solar are setting the standard of solar panel technology and sustainable energy performance.
We have achieved a World record for multicrystalline power output1 confirmed by TUV Rheinland for the performance of our solar panels, and are dedicated to continually developing our technological expertise through our partnerships with the Lotus
F1 Team and leading universities worldwide.
Our solar panels contribute to the global sustainable energy reserves and provide communities in the most remote areas with electricity, but we are also committed to cutting the pollution caused by panel production.
Sustainable Leadership
1 As of September 2011
Ranked #18 in the Fortune 2011 “Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies”
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Sustainable Leadership
1 capacity of 8,000 tons /day and 2,500 tons per day for organic water and in-organic water respectively
Committed to a carbon-footprint reduction program at the factory • Certified ISO 14001 (environmental management)
• Reducing electricity consumption in all workshops • Shortening cycle time for selected machines • Running various recycling programs (water, slurry, etc.)
• Economies of scale & maximizing space utilization • PV park & vertical integration: reduce logistic pollution • Member of PV Cycle to handle recycling of our panels
R&D & technology partnerships with leading universities to develop the next generation of PV cells
MODULE FAB. ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION (IN MWH/MW)
Sustainable Leadership
We are dramatically reducing our electricity and water consumption by: • Recovering and reusing residual heat with cooling water. This alone saves about
3,100 MWh/year
• Selective use of refrigeration units and air-cooled heat pumps • Collecting and reusing reverse osmosis concentrated water • Reducing compressed dry air (CDA) system regeneration time • Shortening machine production and cycle times
• Maximizing the use of recycled water and used water
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265.3 285.1 306.8 263.9 281.8
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ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION (IN MWH/MW)
CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE
Over 30 in-house tests, allows internal testing in accordance with IEC standards and those of internationally-trusted testing bodies
Long-term Strategic Partnership with TUV Rheinland Group, Underwriters Laboratories Inc (UL) and China General Certification
Centre (CGC).
Material & Electrical testing to increase panel durability and product life
Allows Trina Solar to confidently offer our customers product and manufacturing warranties
Sustainable Leadership
Trina Solar is currently working actively to incorporate solar technology into both the team’s daily operations and their headquarters at Enstone, UK whilst supporting with a programme of carbon offsetting: • The Lotus F1 Team are the only team to have a solar system installed in their motorhome • At Enstone, the team’s simulator building is solar powered, contributing to its status as a Site of Special
Scientific Interest • Trina Solar have committed to the carbon offsetting with the Plant-for-the-Planet campaign
Lotus F1 Team and the Environment
“Formula 1 has a long history of providing technological development that has much wider implications than simply making fast racing cars. The trickle down of useful technology has, however, been incidental to the aims of the sport. In recent years by contrast, the sport has taken a conscious decision to structure its regulations to ensure that the technology it delivers is of immediate and direct relevance to the future improvement of road car efficiency. Lotus F1 Team has played, and continues to play a constructive role in the creation of these regulations. Back in our factory, we have delivered many smaller scale initiatives to ensure that our direct activities have a reduced carbon footprint. So, whether on the small stage of our operations at Enstone or on the wider stage of the strategic direction for Formula 1, Lotus F1 Team is committed to promoting and supporting initiatives that ensure that our activities contribute to a greener future for society.”
Eric Bouiller, Lotus F1 Team Principal
Lotus F1 Team and the Environment
Formula One is taking steps towards becoming ever more sustainable with regulation changes to drive energy efficiency. The current generation of Formula One cars has already embraced hybrid technology with KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), and the sport is poised for a raft of technical changes for the 2014 season to reduce fuel consumption. These regulations will see the capacity of the engines reduced from 2.4litres to just 1.6litres, but performance will be maintained by permitting much larger hybrid systems that are also able to generate energy from the exhaust heat
F1 and the Environment
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