Trina Solar's net earnings soared a whopping 174.8% to $43.1m

It achieved the "strongest quarter ever".

PV modules, solutions, and services firm Trina Solar revealed that net income was $43.1 million, an increase of 174.8% from the first quarter of 2015 and 317.8% from the second quarter of 2014.

Net revenues were $722.9 million, an increase of 29.5% from the first quarter of 2015 and 39.2% from the second quarter of 2014.

Gross margin was 20.0%, compared with 18.0% in the first quarter of 2015 and 15.4% in the second quarter of 2014.

Operating income was $60.7 million, an increase of 108.1% from the first quarter of 2015 and 286.5% from the second quarter of 2014.

Total module shipments from the Trina Solar's manufacturing facilities were 1,231.6 MW, consisting of 1,000.7 MW of external shipments and 230.9 MW of shipments to the Company's own downstream PV power projects, an increase of 20.0% sequentially and 30.6% year-over-year. This compares to the Company's guidance of 1,100 MW to 1,140 MW of total module shipments.

Total 121.3 MW of PV power projects connected to the grid in the second quarter, compared with the company's guidance of 65 MW to 70 MW.

"We achieved our second straight quarter of record results and our strongest quarter ever for both upstream and downstream in almost all financial and operating metrics," said Mr. Jifan Gao, Chairman and CEO of Trina Solar. "We not only beat the high end of our guidance with record module shipments of 1.23 GW and project connections of 121.3 MW, we also experienced strong top-line and bottom-line growth and improved fundamentals while focusing on profitable growth."