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VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES

VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES

10. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES

The Company, through its subsidiaries, may enter into silent partnership agreements and/or various types of bankruptcy remote arrangements for the sole purpose of holding Japan project companies. Under the silent partnership agreements and/or the bankruptcy remote arrangements, the project companies are considered VIEs in which the Company has no majority equity interests, but is entitled to substantially all of the economic interests of the projects. In addition, the Company has the power to make decisions over the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the projects under the asset management agreement signed simultaneously between the project companies and a wholly-owned subsidiary, Canadian Solar Projects K.K. As such, the Company concluded it was the primary beneficiary of the project companies and thus these project companies were accounted for as consolidated VIEs since their establishment. The Company does not retain any ownership interest nor control of the bankruptcy remote entities, which individually and, in the aggregate, are insignificant.

As of December 31, 2022 and 2023, the carrying amounts and classifications of the consolidated VIEs’ major assets and liabilities with immaterial items combined, excluding intercompany balances which are eliminated upon consolidation, included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets are as follows:

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​		At December 31,		At December 31,
​	​	2022	​	2023
​	​	$	​	$
Cash	​	15,903	​	10,478
Project assets	​	320,460	​	109,144
Other assets	​	30,163	​	40,340
Total assets	​	366,526	​	159,962
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Short-term borrowings	​	191,792	​	73,131
Long-term borrowings	​	49,675	​	16,956
Other liabilities	​	26,366	​	27,376
Total liabilities	​	267,833	​	117,463

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Net income and overall cash flow activities during the years ended December 31, 2021, 2022 and 2023 were insignificant to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

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The entire disclosure for a variable interest entity (VIE), including but not limited to, judgments and assumptions in determining whether to consolidate and in identifying the primary beneficiary, gain (loss) recognized on the initial consolidation of the VIE, terms of arrangements, amounts and classification of the VIE's assets and liabilities, and the entity's maximum exposure to loss.

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-Topic 810
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-URI https://asc.fasb.org//810/tableOfContent

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