Q3 2019 ReneSola Ltd Earnings Call

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SOL - ReneSola Ltd
Q3 2019 ReneSola Ltd Earnings Call
Nov 25, 2019 / 01:00PM GMT 

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Corporate Participants
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   *  Crystal Li
      ReneSola Ltd - Director
   *  Kevin Chen
      ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director

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Conference Call Participants
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   *  Philip Shen
      Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst
   *  Gary Thomas Dvorchak
      The Blueshirt Group, LLC - MD of Asia

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Presentation
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Operator   [1]
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 Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the ReneSola's Third Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. (Operator Instructions) Today's call is being recorded, November 25, 2019.

 I will now turn the call over to Mr. Gary Dvorchak, Managing Director of The Blueshirt Group, Asia. Please go ahead, Mr. Dvorchak.

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 Gary Thomas Dvorchak,  The Blueshirt Group, LLC - MD of Asia   [2]
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 Thank you, Albert, and hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us on today's call to discuss third quarter 2019 results. We released our shareholder letter a couple of hours ago. It's available on our website in the Investor Relations section. There's also a supplemental slide deck posted on the website that we will reference during our prepared remarks.

 On the call with me today are Mr. Ke Chen, ReneSola's new Chief Financial Officer, [Ms. Jessie Zhang], Director of Financial Reporting; and Ms. Crystal Li, who serves on the Board of Directors and is Vice President of Investments.

 Before we continue, please turn to Slide 2. Let me remind you that remarks made during this call may include predictions, estimates or other information that might be considered forward-looking. These forward-looking statements represent ReneSola's current judgment for the future. However, there are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Those results are described under risk factors and elsewhere in ReneSola's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 Please do not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect ReneSola's opinions only as of the date of this call. ReneSola is not obliged to update you on any revisions to these forward-looking statements. Also, please note that unless otherwise stated, all figures mentioned during the conference call are in U.S. dollars.

 With that, let me now turn the call over to Ms. Crystal Li, who will discuss the quarter's operating highlights on behalf of the Board of Directors. Crystal.

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [3]
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 Thank you, Gary, and thank you, everyone, for joining our call today. We are very excited about the new leadership at ReneSola, which we announced this morning. The changes reflect our belief that we're entering a new phase in the life of the company. We have completed a multiyear transition away from manufacturing and into asset-like global project development. Our outgoing CEO and CFO made important contributions to that transition, and we deeply appreciate their efforts.

 Our new phase, which we expect to be marked by sustained profitability and accelerating growth, requires a new skill set. Mr. Liu and Mr. Chen have unique qualifications that are perfect fit with our future needs. We warmly welcome them to the team.

 Mr. Liu is a widely recognized industry veteran. He has significant leadership experience at Canadian Solar, Recurrent Energy and GCL. He was most recently the Vice President of the EMEA region at Canadian Solar, a leading global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules and the provider of solar energy solutions. Previously, Mr. Liu was the President of Recurrent Energy, the U.S. subsidiary of Canadian Solar and also a leading solar developer in the U.S. His track record of success makes us confident in his ability to lead ReneSola.

 Our new CFO, Ke Chen, was already on the Board of Directors and will continue to also serve in that capacity. Mr. Chen is a Director of Shah Capital, a major shareholder of ReneSola. He has over 13 years of experience in the global capital markets, including investing in the solar industry in China. He brings both capital market insight and strategic expertise to ReneSola. And he will lead the ReneSola Financial Planning and Analysis, Investor Relations, strategy and the capital market efforts. We are confident that he will provide a world-class financial leadership for ReneSola.

 Mr. Chen is here with us on the call today. I would like to have him to say a few words. Go ahead, Mr. Chen.

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [4]
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 Thank you, Crystal, and good morning, everyone. With my 30-plus years in the capital markets, I have met and spoken with many of you before and are looking forward to renewing those relationships in this new role. My Wall Street background and the experience in investing in the solar industry will enable me to be effective in furnishing our cost of capital. We intend to improve our equity valuation by becoming more visible in the U.S. capital markets.

 We have a great story to tell. We believe our strategic focus on the project development business in the U.S. and Europe can drive [accelerating] goals and improve profitability, which in turn, should drive a higher valuation. I will discuss this more in my CFO section of the call.

 Now I will turn the call back to Crystal.

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [5]
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 Thank you, Mr. Chen. To get started, I will summarize our third quarter financial performance and review our operating highlights. The call will then go to Mr. Chen, who will cover financial results in more detail and will update 2019 guidance. We will then open the call to questions.

 I am very pleased with our third quarter results, business momentum accelerated and our financial results exceeded expectations. Revenue of $66 million grew to 386% sequentially, and was above the high end of our guidance range. Gross margin of 25% also exceeded the high end of our guidance. Importantly, we were profitable for the second consecutive quarter and ended the quarter with a healthy balance sheet. The cash balance increased to $9.4 million, even as we reduced the debt by more than $40 million.

 Operations made solid progress in Q3. We connected 10-megawatt projects in several geographies, including the U.S., Canada and the China. We sold a 55-megawatt portfolio of ground-mounted solar farms in Poland and we signed an agreement to sell 22.3 megawatts of DG projects in china.

 Let's now look more closely at the project pipeline. Our total development pipeline is all at 1.1 gigawatts, but was down from 1.4 gigawatt in Q2. Our late-stage pipeline also decreased to 399 megawatts from 714-megawatt in last quarter. Earlier, we have projects under development in several emerging markets, including India and Vietnam. After a detailed profitability review, we determined that the projects in those markets were not economically viable for us. As a result, we decided to scrap these projects and redirect our efforts to other profitable markets, including the U.S. and Europe, where we see tremendous growth opportunity.

 Our late-stage pipeline remains geographically diversified, spanning many different countries, as listed on Slide 3. Approximately 24 megawatt of late-stage under construction. As I mentioned earlier, in Q3, we connected a total 10 megawatt of projects in several geographies, including the U.S., China and Canada.

 Now let's review the various geographies in more detail. First, let's turn attention to the U.S. as highlighted on Slide 7. Our late-stage project stands at around 283 megawatts, of which 98 megawatt are community solar in Minnesota and New York. Additionally, we have projects under development with a mix of corporate, municipal and utility off-takers in other states, including Utah, Texas, Florida and California. In the meantime, we operate 24.1 megawatt utility projects in North Carolina.

 As we said on our last earnings call, in June 2019, we entered into a development service agreement with X-Elio North America. They are a company that specializes in development, construction, operation and maintenance of solar plants. Our team is on track to originate and develop large utility-scale solar projects for X-Elio. We're assisting them in obtaining site control, permitting, interconnection and off-take agreements. We're also supporting their projects through the financing and construction phases.

 The initial portfolio of projects is located in California, Oregon and Utah, with a total installed capacity of more than 500 megawatts. This partnership with X-Elio demonstrates our ability to leverage our development capability in new ways. We believe this deal is an example that could open up opportunities to engage with other project developers and operators as well.

 In Poland, shown on Slide 8, our key asset is a portfolio of project rights. During the quarter, we sold the 55 megawatt project awarded to us in the 2016 and 2017 auctions. So at quarter end, we had a portfolio of 26 projects of 1 megawatt each, which awarded to us in the 2018 auction. After quarter end, we entered an agreement to sell half of that remaining portfolio.

 Slide 9 refers to Hungary, where we also invest in small-scale DG projects. Our late-stage pipeline has more than 55 micro projects, each with a size of 1.5 megawatts, bringing total capacity to approximately 34 megawatts. Of the late-stage projects, 21 megawatts under construction and expected to connect to the grid in the next few months.

 Last month, we entered into agreements to sell a bunch of these small-scale DG projects to Obton, a leading international solar investment company. The portfolio comprises 24 micro solar plants with an average size of approximately 1.5 megawatt per plant, bringing a combined capacity of 13.9 megawatts. These 24 small-scale DG projects are qualified under the Hungarian 25-year feed-in tariff scheme.

 Now let's move to France on Slide 10. We have a project pipeline of 42.5 megawatts, all of which are ground-mounted. One of these is a 30-megawatt solar park we're developing with our strategic partner, Green City Energy. As a reminder, we formed our partnership in 2018 to co-develop solar parks in the south. We expect COD for the products in 2020 or 2021.

 Slide 11 shows Spain, where we have a late-stage pipeline of 12 megawatts of ground-mounted projects located in the southern Murcia region.

 In addition to our development pipeline, we currently own and operate a 20 -- a 241 megawatt portfolio of solar projects that generates high-margin recurring revenue. As you see on Slide 13, our operating assets include 197 megawatt of rooftop in China, 24 megawatt of utility solar in the U.S., 50 megawatt of ground-mounted in Romania and the 4 megawatt of rooftop in the U.K. The 197 megawatt of rooftop we operate in China is concentrated in multiple eastern provinces with favorable development environment.

 Self-consumption DG projects in those provinces are attractive investment for us. As we evolve and transform into asset-light solar project developer, we intend to monetize our China DG assets. This will enable us to further strengthen our balance sheet, reduce leverage and improve cash flow. We plan to use the cash to develop in the U.S. and Europe.

 Along these lines, in Q3, we agreed to sell 11 rooftop DG projects located in Zhejiang Province to a China state-owned enterprise specializing in the solar energy industry. Separately, we also agreed to sell 3 small-scale DG projects located in Shanghai to a different undisclosed third party. The 11 rooftop DG projects located in Zhejiang Province have aggregate installed capacity of 20.6 megawatt. And the 3 small-scale DG projects located in Shanghai have a combined capacity of 1.7 megawatts. Revenue from 7 megawatts of these sales was recognized in Q3. While the remaining 15.3 megawatts will be recognized in Q4.

 In summary, we have a globally diversified project portfolio spanning multiple stages in both rooftop and ground-mount, and I am positive on opportunities ahead of us. The global solar power project development business is large and it continues to grow. We are becoming a leading global project developer by focusing on high-quality projects in attractive regions.

 Before I turn the call over to Mr. Chen, I would like to briefly discuss investments by Shah Capital. Shah Capital is one of our major shareholders. They made an incremental investment in ReneSola by purchasing 100 million newly issued ordinary shares for a total of USD 11 million. The transaction is now closed and the company has received that investment. We believe this strategic investment from Shah Capital is a vote of confidence in our business. It also provides an important capital infusion, enabling us to better execute our strategy.

 Let me now turn the call over to Mr. Chen for comments on our financial performance. Mr. Chen.

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [6]
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 Thank you, Crystal, and thank you, everyone, for joining us on the call today. I would like to remind you our results is on our website and including all the presentations. I will review our financial performance for the third quarter of 2019, and then discuss our outlook. All the numbers are in U.S. dollars. Please turn to Slide 15.

 Revenue was $66 million compared to $13.6 million last quarter and $18.8 million in the same quarter last year. Q3 revenue exceeded our guidance range of $15 million to $16 million. To understand this outstanding performance, let's look at revenue by segment.

 Project development revenue of $55.6 million was largely driven by recognition of the sales of the Poland assets. Electricity sales from our owned assets were $10.3 million. This came mainly from the 67.8 million kilowatt hour of electricity generated by our projects in China.

 Gross profit was $16.2 million up from $10.5 million last quarter and up from $8.6 million in the same quarter last year. Gross margin was 24.6%, which was significantly ahead of our expectation of 15% to 17%. Better-than-expected gross margin was due to higher-than-expected revenue recognized during the quarter, coupled with high-margin IPP electricity sales.

 Operating income was $7.4 million compared to $7.1 million in Q2 of 2019 and operating income of $5.7 million in Q3 of 2018. Operating margin was 11.2%, down from 52.2% in Q2 of 2019 and 30.4% in Q3 of 2018.

 Operating expenses were $8.9 million, up both sequentially and year-over-year. Sales and marketing expense of $365,000 were up sequentially and year-over-year due to employee bonus payments. In contrast, general and administrative expense of $2.1 million were down sequentially and year-over-year as we continue to scale our headcount, office expense and other overhead to the current size of company.

 Note that Q3 operating expense include an impairment charge of $5.5 million on the fixed assets related to the sales of 15.3 megawatt of DG projects in China. ReneSola signed a sales agreement at the end of Q3, and expect to recognize revenue from the transactions in Q4.

 Below the line, nonoperating expense totaled $4.7 million, up from $0.5 million last quarter. Q3 nonoperating items include interest expense of $2.2 million and a foreign exchange loss of $2.5 million. The foreign exchange loss were -- was mainly due to the appreciation of the euro and U.S. dollar against the local currency, including Poland, Hungary and Romania, resulting in exchange losses are payables in euro and the U.S. dollar.

 Our net income was $2.4 million or $0.06 per ADS compared to $5.1 million or $0.30 per ADS last quarter. Adjusted EBITDA was positive $15.4 million, up 55% sequentially and up 99% year-over-year.

 Now let's review the balance sheet shown on Slide 16. We had a cash and cash equivalents of $9.4 million as of September 30, 2019, an increase of $0.6 million during the quarter. Long-term borrowings were $10.9 million as of September 30, 2019, which was essentially flat when compared to the prior quarter. We have long-term liabilities related to sale leaseback and financial lease liability of $57.5 million. This decreased $13.3 million during the quarter, as we sold the related rooftop project in China. Short-term borrowings were $41.4 million, down from $82.8 million in the prior quarter.

 Before I provide our outlook for Q4, I would like to briefly comment on our share price and also give you an update on the depositary service fee for our ADS holders. As I mentioned at the start, lowering our cost of capital will be an important responsibility for me as the CFO. We believe our shares are undervalued at the current level when compared to our peers in the solar space, as shown on Slide 17.

 From the standpoint of the [new part] of our stock, our valuation is great. We believe we should attract both value and growth investors as well as ESG focused funds. Bottom line, we are focused on operating efficiency and profitability, delivering high returns and generating good cash flow, which we believe can drive a higher valuation over time.

 Also, we recently instructed our depositary bank, Bank of New York Mellon, that we will pay the annual depositary service fee for our ADS holders. We do this because we want to be one of the most shareholder-friendly company in a solar power development industry and treat our shareholders fairly and ethically. We believe this action is further evidence of this commitment.

 Let's now turn our attention to guidance, shown on Slide 18. For 2019, we expect revenue to be in the range of $130 million to $140 million, and our overall gross margin in the range of 20% to 25%. For the fourth quarter of 2019, we expect revenue in the range of $45 million to $50 million and the gross margin in the range of 10% to 15%.

 With that, we will now like to open up the call for any questions that you may have for us. Operator, please go ahead.

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Questions and Answers
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Operator   [1]
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 (Operator Instructions) And your question comes from the line of Philip Shen of Roth Capital.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [2]
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 Ke, congratulations on your new role. I wanted to touch on...

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [3]
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 Thank you.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [4]
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 I just want to make sure, Yumin is not on the call, right, and he doesn't start until December 4.? So I just want to make sure?

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [5]
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 He's not on the call.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [6]
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 Got it. Okay. So in terms of -- Ke, in terms of your strategy around reducing your cost of capital, can you highlight in contrast what you plan on doing that's different than what had been done in the past? So where are the opportunities? And what is the low-hanging fruit? And then maybe what else do you see beyond the low-hanging fruits to reduce the cost of capital?

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [7]
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 Sure. Thank you, Phil. It's nice to speak with you again. First of all, our focus will be the U.S. and European market. And so that's -- going forward, that's our focus. And so those projects in U.S. and Europe will have higher profitability. Secondly, we'll review all the strong financial partners we have before, and we will talk with them and find the best way to lower our cost of capital. And lastly, we will continue to make commitments to sell our China projects. So we will get our cash back from those China projects and reinvest those cash in the high-profitable market in the U.S. and Europe. So that's all for now.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [8]
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 Okay. And can you quantify the degree? So just remind everybody kind of what your rough cost of capital is now. And then within a year or 2, how much lower do you think that could go?

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [9]
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 Phil, that's a good question. And I think we have reviewed this carefully. Again, in different regions, we have different cost of capital. So I will -- we will, again, make that decision going forward. Certainly, there's a lot of room for us to improve.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [10]
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 Okay. Now shifting gears to your China projects, can you tell us of the -- I believe there was about $10 million of revenue, right, in the quarter. What percentage of that is actually resulting in cash receipts of the $10-plus million per quarter? And yes, we'll start there and I'll have some follow-ups.

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [11]
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 Crystal, can you...

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [12]
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 Yes. So Phil, we received 40% of that $10 million in cash. That's mainly from our China projects.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [13]
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 Okay. And is that historically true as well? I mean, it's basically roughly 40%. Okay. So when -- can you talk about the timing of when you expect to sell these projects? Are we looking at this month -- I'm sorry, this -- that's sometime in the next quarter or 2? Or do you think it would take longer than 2 quarters?

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [14]
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 So we have sold 22.3 megawatts in Q3 and we're looking to sell another 28 megawatt in Q4. And then all the remaining, we plan to sell within 2020.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [15]
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 Great. Okay. That's very detailed. And then let's move on here to 2020, that's a good topic. I know you have not provided official guidance, but wanted to see how many megawatts do you plan on monetizing in 2020, you gave some sense for China already, but we would like to build the forecast with some degree of clarity. And so can you speak to how many megawatts you plan to monetize by region in 2020? And also -- okay. Great.

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [16]
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 Sure. Yes, that's a fair question. So aside from the 180 -- around 180 megawatts from China, we continue -- we want to continue to sell our current projects in Hungary in the range of between 10 to 15 megawatts, and plan to sell some newly developed projects in Poland and we estimate it to be 30 megawatts. And in Spain, we have these 12-megawatt projects in pipeline and were ready for sale in 2020. So 12 megawatt in Spain. And somewhere around 40 to 60 megawatt from U.S.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [17]
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 Okay. Great. That's very clear. And then what do you think the mix of NTP sales versus COD sales will be in 2020?

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [18]
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 Yes. So looking from our -- the current pipeline we have and to decide what to sell in 2020, we plan to -- we plan then, well, 25% will be NTP sale and maybe 50% will be COD sale, and the rest revenue would come from our operating assets and other activities.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [19]
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 Okay. Great. Just to...

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [20]
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 Phil, I just want to -- I just want to add here. Again, in terms of NTP and COD, we are -- again, decided that going forward to see what's the best for the company. So we'll be optimistic. I mean, to find the best way to generate cash flow and profitability. So we would decide going forward into 2020.

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [21]
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 Yes. Yes, also, what we present today is the current view of this company. And I'm sure after the new CEO onboard, there could be some adjustments and we will disclose 2020 forecast in detail on our Q4 earnings call.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [22]
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 Okay. Great. When you think about 2020, we talked about the potential for project sales. But what's your sense for the margin profile for 2020?

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [23]
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 Phil, it's too early right now, I think. So let's talk about the next quarter call. And again, the new management, you mean will onboard in December 4. So I think it's better, we talk about that in the next call.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [24]
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 Okay. That makes sense. As it relates to your comparison to peers, Ke, that you did with Vivint and Sunrun and Sunnova and SunPower. Their business models are about originating the assets and keeping them on balance sheets. Your business model is originating the assets and then selling them. Do you think there might be a peer group that might be a bit -- I wonder if those business models match yours exactly. I know SunPower is making a change now, where they are selling the assets. So that could be a possible peer. But when I look at Sunnova, Vivint and Sunrun, it seems like, fundamentally, the business models are actually different. What are your thoughts on that?

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [25]
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 Yes. It's good that you mentioned SunPower, they kind of did what ReneSola did. But again, looking at the competitors across the space, we are the purely -- I mean, right now, we are purely the product developer globally, as a global leader in the space. So we haven't identified another unique one like us. So this is very unique for us in this position. But we will see. Again, we did a comprehensive comparison, but this is as close we can get right now. We believe we are the leader, purely unique leader in this space.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [26]
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 When you say the leader, that means the #1 leader. I mean, isn't Canadian Solar's development projects and pipeline quantitatively larger?

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [27]
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 Well, we are different -- yes, but we have a different strategy, right? We are focused on the community solar. We are -- our focus in the future will be the U.S. and Europe. So we're a little bit different in terms of strategy.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [28]
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 So when you say the leader, you mean the leader in global distributed generation -- DG development?

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [29]
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 Or community solar, yes.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [30]
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 As opposed to utility-scale development, which is what Canadian Solar has?

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [31]
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 Yes.

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 Philip Shen,  Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst   [32]
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 Okay. Okay, good. Well, I look forward to having Yumin on the line and on board as well, and learning more about the strategy from you guys ahead.

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [33]
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 Yes. Thanks.

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 Kevin Chen,  ReneSola Ltd - CFO & Director   [34]
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 Thank you, Phil.

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Operator   [35]
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 (Operator Instructions) There are no further questions at this time. I would now like to hand the conference back to Crystal, please continue.

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 Crystal Li,  ReneSola Ltd - Director   [36]
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 Sure. Thank you, operator. To conclude, we are pleased with our Q3 results and are optimistic about opportunities ahead of us. We have the right strategy in place and an outstanding new leadership team and a solid balance sheet to execute it. Today, we are turning the page to begin a new chapter in the life of the company. We're excited about our prospects, and we look forward to speaking with you all soon.

 Thank you all, again, for your participation. This concludes our call today. You may all disconnect.

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Operator   [37]
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 Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may all disconnect.




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