Featured in Huawei Special Edition 2020

Talking investment: From the lab to next-gen PV

Huawei says it invests more than 10% of its revenue in research and development each year, with this figure reaching around 15% in the last two years. Over the past decade, the company’s R&D investment totaled CNY 480 billion ($67 billion). Huawei has established 14 R&D centers and more than 60 basic technology laboratories worldwide, covering materials, heat dissipation, mathematics, and wireless technologies. Chen Guoguang, the new president of the Smart PV Business Unit, discusses what this means for the advancement of solar.

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pv magazine

25 Jun 2020

Huawei’s R&D center in Shenzhen, China. The company says it invests more than 10% of its revenues in R&D each year. | Photo: Huawei

Huawei is known for making significant R&D investments. What kind of spending are we talking about for the energy business?Our Digital Power Product Line, which is one of Huawei’s eight product lines, has recorded some of the fastest growth, covering fields such as a data center facility, telecom energy, smart PV, and mPower. This product …

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