Celebrating its 20th anniversary, JinkoSolar arrived at Intersolar Europe 2026 looking both at its technological journey and at the next challenges facing the photovoltaic industry. While higher module power continues to attract attention, the company believes the future of solar will increasingly be defined by efficiency, energy yield and seamless integration with battery storage.
Speaking with Review Energy, Alejandro Villegas, Senior Sales Manager Spain at JinkoSolar, explained that one of the company’s most significant milestones has been its transition from PERC technology to TOPCon.
“The biggest technological leap has been moving from PERC to N-type TOPCon,” he said. “With our Tiger Neo 3.0 modules, we’ve significantly improved temperature behaviour, reduced degradation and achieved better performance under low irradiance conditions.”
Those performance improvements, he explained, translate into greater long-term energy production rather than simply higher nameplate power.
More power, but also better performance
Module output continues to increase rapidly across the industry, and JinkoSolar remains focused on pushing that frontier.
According to Villegas, the Tiger Neo product family has increased its power by roughly 25% in recent years, rising from 615 W to 670 W. During SNEC 2026 in Shanghai, the company also unveiled the next generation of the platform, with future versions expected to approach 700 W.
“We continue to focus on increasing module power,” he said. “But we’re also working on different module formats to meet the needs of different markets.”
For Southern European countries such as Spain, Portugal and Italy, Villegas highlighted the strong market acceptance of JinkoSolar’s large-format 66-cell modules, which are currently available at up to 740 W, with further increases already under development.
Storage is changing module design
Despite the industry’s focus on ever-higher wattage, Villegas believes the next stage of module innovation will be increasingly linked to the rapid deployment of battery storage.
“The challenge is no longer only about increasing power,” he explained. “Modules now have to evolve alongside energy storage.”
Rather than simply maximising peak output, future photovoltaic modules will need to deliver generation profiles that better complement charging strategies, helping maximise the value of stored solar energy while reducing the overall levelized cost of electricity (LCOE).
“We need modules with higher performance that generate energy when it is most valuable and allow that energy to be effectively stored,” he said.
For Villegas, improving plant economics will ultimately depend less on reaching ever-higher wattage figures than on maintaining stable long-term performance while supporting increasingly flexible solar-plus-storage projects.
Looking beyond modules
That integration is particularly relevant for JinkoSolar because the company is no longer focused exclusively on photovoltaic modules. “As a company, we are not only a module manufacturer anymore—we also manufacture battery storage systems,” Villegas said.
Developing both technologies allows the company to align advances in module performance with the growing role of storage across European energy markets, where batteries are becoming an increasingly common component of utility-scale and commercial solar projects.
For JinkoSolar, the next phase of photovoltaic innovation will therefore be defined by the interaction between generation and storage, with module development focused not only on producing more energy, but on producing it more efficiently, more consistently and in a way that maximises the overall value of solar assets.
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