The owner of this super-shocking "patent wall" is Hanergy, the world's leading thin-film solar company, which has been focusing on developing clean energy for 24 years and has created two industry legends. Since 2009, Hanergy has occupied technical highlands through global technology mergers and acquisitions and integrated innovation, leading the development of global thin-film solar energy and creating a new situation of human mobile energy.
For a long time, there are two technical routes in photovoltaic field-thin film and crystalline silicon. In 2009, compared with crystalline silicon, thin films did not have much advantage in cost. On the contrary, the production cost is high, the technology is difficult, and the market penetration rate is poor, so it is not favored by the industry. However, in the view of Li, the founder of Hanergy, thin film and flexibility are the general trend of solar energy development in the future. "Domestic PV companies that choose thin film routes are rare, because they are limited by scale and core technologies. Unlike crystalline silicon, thin films can not be produced simply by purchasing equipment, but require continuous technology research and development and capital investment. "
It is understood that the thin-film solar energy industry is an intellectual property-intensive industry, which has been blank in China for decades. Technology is monopolized by a few foreign companies, with high price and great difficulty in introduction. During the period of 20 12-20 14, Hanergy caught up. Through global technology integration and independent innovation, we have directly mastered the world's most advanced thin-film solar energy technology, and achieved technological catch-up in just three years.
The classic feature of Hanergy's overseas M&A case is that after choosing the thin-film solar strategy, it quickly realized the construction of core competitiveness through four overseas mergers and acquisitions. Hanergy has successively acquired four advanced thin-film solar companies in Europe and America, namely Solibro, a German manufacturer of glass-based copper indium gallium selenide thin-film solar cells, and Miasolé, an American manufacturer of glass-based flexible copper indium gallium selenide thin-film solar cells. Global Solar (GSE), an American manufacturer of flexible copper indium gallium selenide thin-film solar cells, and Alta Devices, an American manufacturer of flexible gallium arsenide thin-film solar cells, have mastered the world-leading technologies of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) and gallium arsenide (GaAs), and built a complete industrial chain from research and development to equipment manufacturing to end product production.
Up to now, Hanergy has applied for more than 5,000 patents for thin-film solar energy, 60% of which are invention patents, and the R&D and mass production efficiency of various technical routes have reached new highs, maintaining four world records. After years of exploration, the highest conversion rates of Hanergy copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) and gallium arsenide GaAs thin film solar cells reached 265,438+0% and 365,438+0.6% respectively, which were certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the United States and ranked first in the world. Hanergy also has more than 2,000 global thin-film solar technicians, including many outstanding scientists, including a large number of top scientists in the advanced semiconductor and photovoltaic fields at home and abroad.
This wall belongs to Hanergy, especially to China. When technological innovation and mastering core technologies have become China's national strategy, China enterprises such as Huawei and Hanergy all started with technological breakthroughs. At present, on a global scale, Hanergy will continue to expand more technical application scenarios while continuously upgrading its technology, and finally let mobile energy cut into every field of future life. The mobile energy solution led by Hanergy will bring a new round of energy revolution to the world, and people can't help but admire the strength behind this patent wall.
Source: Phoenix Net