Calvin Lan, CEO of Huawei Ireland. Image: Conor McCabe Photography
Calvin Lan, CEO of Huawei Ireland, discusses the work to be done on Ireland’s commitment to an ambitious 8GW of solar capacity by 2030.
In November 2025, Ireland’s national solar capacity crossed 2GW of capacity for the first time. It was a milestone that would have seemed ambitious just a few years earlier, and one that Huawei Ireland, which supplies inverter systems and grid management technology to many of the those installations, has watched closely.
For Calvin Lan, CEO of Huawei Ireland, that milestone was very much a starting point, not a destination. Ireland, as a country, has committed to an ambitious 8GW of solar capacity by 2030, so there’s much work left to do.
“The gap between where we are and where we need to be is significant,” says Lan. The technology to close the divide exists. The question is whether Irish organisations will move quickly enough to use it, he says.
