Bates Marshall, a seasoned veteran of the US solar energy markets, with over 20 years of executive experience, is now in charge of Huawei’s FusionSolar growth strategy in USA. Marshall was previously senior VP at Advanced Energy and before that was VP with SMA Solar. He joined the Huawei in May 2016, as Vice President and General Manager.
At Solar Power International in Las Vegas last month, Marshall outlined the evolution of Huawei’s incredible success in solar and the company’s vision for the continued rapid growth in the USA.
He pointed out that the key to Huawei’s success in PV lies in its history as a telecom and smart phone systems designer and manufacturer.
Marshall stated that the rapid pace of evolution in the network communications industry and the very high demands the industry places on systems uptime, component reliability, smart systems and connectivity are the benchmarks for setting the company’s vision of technological development in PV.
Driving the innovation are nine global R&D Centers of Network Energy, employing more than 2000 engineers, 100 PhDs and 800 inverter engineers, including an Inverter Innovation Center in Santa Clara, California. Approximately half of Huawei’s 176,000 employees worldwide are involved in R&D.
