by,Peter Lehner – Executive Director – Natural Resources Defense Council. While I was traveling in China last week, I visited the headquarters of Trina Solar, one of the largest solar photovoltaic manufacturers in the world.
The tour was very impressive and showed me so clearly what you can accomplish with targeted clean energy policies—the kind of policies we cannot get through the U.S. Congress.
In China, similar policies are creating thousands of good jobs as well as tax revenue, export sales, and pride in helping shape a prosperous, sustainable future. I was told that the name Trina comes from the word for harmony between the heavens and the people; it’s actually pretty fitting.
Trina Solar is only 13 years old, and it already has more than 10,000 employees and expects to double its sales this year, just as it has in the last four years. Talking with Trina executives, I began to see how China could go from being a bit player in the global PV market to becoming the nation with 50 percent of worldwide sales. Read on