As Oil Hammers Solar Shares, Trina Goes on Hunt for Acquisitions

Solar companies are ripe for the picking by the world’s second-largest panel maker after plunging oil prices made them cheaper.

“Acquisition is a good way to expand quickly at low costs,” Trina Solar Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Gao Jifan said Friday in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “We are looking at various opportunities both domestically and abroad, including ones in North America.”