US Solar Firm to Move Battery Manufacturing Outside of China (1)

Enphase Energy Inc., a US solar and battery systems supplier, is in the process of moving its battery cell manufacturing out of China to avoid tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump as part of a wider trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

“We need to be making cell packs outside of China and that’s what we are going to be focusing on the next year,” Chief Executive Officer Badri Kothandaraman said in an interview with Bloomberg News. He did not specify where the company would move its operations.

While a third of Enphase’s battery assembly operations are ...