China Pursues More Renewable Energy At Home & Abroad
China is intent on becoming a world leader in renewable energy, especially solar. It will add 40 GW or more in 2019 internally and expanding exports in Europe and Africa.
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German Solar Industry Getting Hammered by Cheap Chinese Imports
Germany’s once world-leading solar industry is taking it on the chin due to cheap Chinese imports and subsidy cuts. Trade tensions are rising, as German solar companies hit the insolvency wall and Chinese companies gobble up productive assets on the cheap. […]
Milwaukee Solar PV Manufacturer Comes Out Publicly in Support of CASM Trade Case Against China
Demand was initially brisk for the high-end monocrystalline silicon solar photovoltaic (PV) panels manufactured by Helios Solar Works at a new, highly automated 50-MW capacity factory on a brownfield industrial site Milwaukee’s city leaders designated for redevelopment and growth. That is until last summer, when founder Steven Ostrenga began noting “a deep dive in [solar panel] pricing coming out of China that we just couldn’t meet.”
