Opinion

SNEC Exclusive: Trina Solar Chairman Interview

Anu Bhambhani

As part of the TaiyangNews & SNEC Solar Leadership Conversations during the world's leading solar event SENC 2023 in China's Shanghai, TaiyangNews had an exclusive interview with Trina Solar's Chairman and President Jifan Gao on May 24, 2023.

During the conversation, Gao touched upon various facets of the global PV industry from demand and supply, supply chain challenges and opportunities and the role of policy frameworks to enable the growth as the world is expected to become a 1 TW annual market way before 2030.

A leading global supplier of solar modules, vertically integrated Trina is now also expanding horizontally. Speaking with TaiyangNews Managing Director Michael Schmela, Gao laid out his vision for the company seeing it evolving from being just a solar company to a total solutions provider based on solar PV technology over the next 25 years that is also expansing in fields like battery storage and hydrogen.

Gao believes the future of the industry belongs to companies with better and higher quality products. Watch the exclusive video from TaiyangNews for the entire conversation.