As an energy operator, GCL-Poly knows its responsibility to the environment. From the right beginning, we have been dedicated to developing environmentally friendly, clean and renewable energy. Our business expansion, from coal-fired cogeneration and gas-fired cogeneration to resource comprehensive utilization, biomass and solid waste power generation and further to wind and solar power, demonstrates our corporate mission of continuously improving our living environment through delivering green and quality energy product and services.

Most of our cogeneration plants adopt circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers, thus substantially lowering emission of sulfur dioxide. For the few pulverized coal boilers, we installed desulphurization equipment. All of our power plants have installed the CEMS (Continuous Emissions Monitoring System), so as to timely monitor pollutant emission.

Solar power is capable of generating electricity while producing significantly less pollution than traditional energy sources; however, we also acknowledge that our manufacturing processes produce a certain amount of waste. To minimize our impact on the environment, we have adopted a modified Siemens process for our polysilicon production to reduce waste discharge by recycling many byproducts of the manufacturing process. We process all our wastewater and waste gas by various treatments so that they each meet national discharge standards. In addition, most of our solid waste can be reused and does not contain poisonous materials. We have established a pollution control system and installed various types of anti-pollution equipment in our facilities to reduce, treat, and where feasible, recycle the wastes generated in our manufacturing process.

We have realized energy conservation and emission reduction through continuous technological improvement and innovation. Our biomass power plants in Baoying and Lianyungang successfully improved the efficiency of their direct combustion boilers and feeding systems, resulting in the reduction of raw coal consumption by 200,000 ton a year, thus the decrease in emission of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide by approximately 400,000 ton and 0.32 ton respectively. Such initiatives have contributed significantly to local air quality improvement. As a result, government subsidies of approximately RMB5.6 million were granted under the incentive scheme of the National Projects for Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction.