Partners (2025)

CLEAN ENERGY ASSOCIATES helps buyers and long-term owners of solar and energy storage equipment buy the right products and ensure they are properly manufactured and installed. The rapid growth of the clean energy industry is exhilarating but the explosion of new technologies, new companies, new factories, new markets, and new business models can be hard to stay on top of and brings new risks.

From our US headquarters and our Asian base in Shanghai, CEA provides our clients with investment confidence as we allow them to get a “peek behind the curtain” to understand what is really happening upstream in supply chains and production facilities and downstream in project design and execution.

CEA’s global team has helped our diverse customer base of project developers, EPCs, IPP’s, and financial institutions understand industry trends and market dynamics, select the best suppliers, negotiate the best contracts, carefully audit production processes, test equipment in the field, and perform technical and acquisition due diligence.

Our experience executing over 250 GW of solar and 40 GWh of storage projects in over 80 countries, including work in over 350 production facilities, is invaluable to our clients as they navigate the ever-changing and hyper-competitive landscape of clean energy. CEA is a subsidiary of Intertek Group plc, a FTSE listed company based in London, with 1,000 test labs and 44,000 professionals working in 100+ countries (www.intertek.com).

LAPLACE Renewable Energy Technology Co., Ltd., established in May 2016, is a global leader in renewable energy innovation. Founded by a team of experts with extensive experience in solar cell research, development, and manufacturing, LAPLACE specializes in core components, advanced equipment, and solutions for the Photovoltaic and Semiconductor industries.

Qcells is one of the world’s leading clean energy companies, recognized for its established reputation as a manufacturer of high-performance, high-quality solar cells and modules, portfolio of intelligent storage systems, and growing international pipeline of large-scale renewable energy projects. Qcells also provides renewable electricity retail services and packages to end customers the world over. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea (Global Executive HQ) with its diverse international manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Malaysia, China, and South Korea. Qcells offers Completely Clean Energy through the full spectrum of photovoltaic products, storage solutions, renewable electricity contracting and large-scale solar power plants. Through its growing global business network spanning North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East, Qcells provides excellent services and long-term partnerships to its customers in the utility, commercial, governmental and residential markets.

RENA is the worldwide technological leader for wet processing equipment.

We provide the most valuable, innovative wet-chemical solutions for our clients to reach the next level of state-of-the-art. We manufacture highest quality flexible and high-throughput equipment in the Renewable Energy, Semiconductor, MedTech, Glass and Additive Manufacturing sectors.

We have 3 manufacturing sites, 2 innovation hubs and more than 1,100+ machines installed worldwide. We are constantly developing the most efficient process for our clients to achieve perfect surface quality. With more than 130 engineers, 150 global service experts at 20 service locations we work to make RENA machines a long-term success story.

RENA Technologies develops pioneering solutions for the production of premium-quality machinery for wet chemical surface treatment applications.

The company focuses on supplying versatile solutions to a variety of technology sectors. When it comes to your series production, you too can benefit from tried-and-tested standard systems with a process guarantee and high throughput rates to help bring your company economic success. Or enjoy the freedom and adjustment options offered by a customer-specific special system for your research and development.

Founded in 1997, Trina Solar is a world leading provider of integrated solutions for photovoltaic (PV) smart energy. It is mainly engaged in research and development, production and sales of PV modules, power stations and system products, PV power generation and operation and maintenance services, plus development and sales of intelligent microgrids and multi-energy systems, as well as the operation of energy cloud platforms. In June 2020, Trina Solar was listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board (STAR Market) of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), becoming the first company providing PV products and systems as well as smart energy to have gone public on the platform.