LONGi Founder Li Zhenguo Announced as Panel Speaker for APEC CEO Summit in San Francisco
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XI'AN, China, Nov. 13, 2023 ~ Li Zhenguo, founder and president of LONGi, a global leader in solar technology, is set to be a featured speaker at the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco on November 15. The panel, which also includes H.E. Ferdinand Marcos Jr, President of the Philippines; Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber; and Anna Bjerde, Managing Director for Operations, The World Bank, will focus on the international imperative to bring more global equity to sustainability.

Speaking about his invitation to the summit, Li Zhenguo said: "It is an honor to be invited to speak about equity in sustainable energy. We know harnessing solar power across the globe will improve local economies and the lives of billions of people."

LONGi is dedicated to making clean energy technology more efficient and more accessible. At the beginning of 2023, US renewable developer Invenergy announced a partnership with LONGi to build a solar module plant with an annual production capacity of 5GW in Ohio, USA, expected to begin operation in the first half of 2024.

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The company has broken the world record for solar cell efficiency 15 times since April 2021 and recently achieved a power conversion efficiency of 33.9% for a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell - an industry first - as confirmed by U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). LONGi is working towards driving down the cost of producing solar modules while increasing their accessibility across the globe in order to help achieve clean energy equity worldwide.

Li Zhenguo expressed his gratitude for being invited to speak at APEC: "I am grateful that the APEC organizers put equitable sustainability on the program," he said. "I am looking forward to an open and interesting conversation with my panel colleagues."

The annual APEC CEO Summit will be held in San Francisco from November 14-16 at Moscone Center West and will bring entrepreneurs and thought leaders together to discuss strategies and solutions for economic, environmental and societal challenges faced by countries surrounding the Pacific Rim. For more information about the summit please visit here.

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