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China’s Solar Giants Aren’t Rushing to Build Overseas Plants

  • Political, trade environment seen as complication for planning
  • Overseas manufacturing plants lack competitiveness: executives
An employee inspects solar cells at the Trina Solar factory in Changzhou, China. 

An employee inspects solar cells at the Trina Solar factory in Changzhou, China. 

Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg 

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China’s solar giants say they are taking time to weigh overseas production possibilities despite policies that encourage local manufacturing.

Top solar companies including Trina Solar Co. and Tongwei Co. said they are exploring building more capacity abroad, but may not immediately act given the complicated political and trade environment between China and some countries, executives of the firms said in a virtual panel as part of the BloombergNEF Shanghai Summit. They also cited low competitiveness overseas compared to China’s domestic supply chain.