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EXHIBIT 8.1

LIST OF MAJOR SUBSIDIARIES

​

​

    

Place of

    

Ownership

 

Name of entity

​

incorporation

​

interest

 

Canadian Solar Solutions Inc.

​

Canada

​

100

%

Canadian Solar New Energy Holding Company Limited

​

Hong Kong

​

100

%

Recurrent Energy, LLC

​

USA

​

100

%

Recurrent Energy B.V.

​

Netherlands

​

100

%

Canadian Solar Brasil I Fundo de Investimento em Participacoes – Multiestrategia

​

Brazil

​

100

%

CSI Solar Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

63.14

%

CSI Cells Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Luoyang) Inc.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar Sunenergy (Baotou) Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

CSI Solar Technology (Xining) Co., Ltd

​

PRC

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Changshu) Inc.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

CSI Modules (DaFeng) Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar Sunenergy (Jiaxing) Co. Ltd

​

PRC

​

100

%*

CSI Cells (Yancheng) Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar Sunenergy (SuQian) Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

CSI Cells (SuQian) Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

CSI Wafer (FuNing) Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

CSI Cells (Yangzhou) Co., Ltd.

​

PRC

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar (USA) Inc.

​

USA

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar US Module Manufacturing Corporation

​

USA

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar SSES (US) Inc.

​

USA

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar International Limited

​

Hong Kong

​

100

%*

Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

​

Thailand

​

99.999996

%*

Canadian Solar EMEA GmbH

​

Germany

​

100

%*

​

*

Significant subsidiaries (as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X) held through CSI Solar Co., Ltd. in which CSI owned a 63.14% interest as of December 31, 2024.