Chinese energy firms warn policy volatility complicates long-term expansion abroad

Chinese energy firms warn policy volatility complicates long-term expansion abroad



Chinese energy firms have called for policy stability in overseas markets as their global investments face mounting geopolitical risks amid headwinds from the oil crisis.

The call came from Sungrow Power Supply and EVE Energy executives, who said policy stability topped their expectations at an event in Hong Kong on Tuesday.

Both companies have come under fresh pressure in the US market in the past two months.

Sungrow, the world’s second-largest energy storage system maker, was hit by a US import ban targeting foreign-made inverters, while EVE, the seventh-largest electric vehicle (EV) battery supplier globally, is being probed by the US International Trade Commission over a patent complaint filed by South Korea’s LG Energy Solution.

“Geopolitics can, in fact, be rather irrational at times and there are often misunderstandings regarding companies like ours which are entirely privately owned,” said Cai Zhuang, general manager of product business at Hefei-based Sungrow, at a BloombergNEF event.

“The truth is that we ourselves do not know what ‘ghost software’ is,” added Cai, pushing back at claims that inverters – a key component in modern grid networks and energy storage systems – could act as spyware.

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