South Africa Is a Gigawatt a Year Market for China's Trina Solar
The company has supplied technology for photovoltaic projects with partners including EDF Renewables. It imported more than a gigawatt of equipment in the last 12 months, though demand has shifted among consumers in the most industrialized nation on the continent, Zaheer Khan, Trina's southern Africa director said in an interview in Cape Town.
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