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China Merchants New Energy Group Ltd said on Tuesday that it was looking to build more solarplants as part of its efforts to push into what it considers a bright spot in an industry suffering fromovercapacity and price wars.
Liu Weijun, senior vice-president of China Merchants New Energy, said the company plans toacquire 1 to 3 giggawatts of solar power capacity every year in the next three to five yearsthrough acquisitions of solar plants.
"We will continue to push forward the installed solar power capacity in the coming years,because the trend is that we will make more downstream investments," said Liu from the State-owned company, a unit of Hong Kong-based China Merchants Group, a conglomerate whichspecializes in transportation, financial investment, and property management businesses.
Lured by the government's target to install 17.8 gW of solar capacity by 2015, State powerproducers such as China Huaneng Group and China Merchants New Energy are venturing intosolar power generation projects for higher returns.
Despite global solar panel overcapacity, China Merchants New Energy has made threepurchases of solar power projects worth more than 10 billion yuan ($1.56 billion) in just twomonths.
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