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Struggling Chinese Solar Companies: Your Goverment Is Here to Help
The Chinese government is stepping up efforts to prop up struggling domestic solar companies by helping them expand locally – with loans, subsidies and policies that stimulate in-country generating capacity. China’s $20 billion export-oriented solar industry is now looking internally for growth because of excess inventory from lower foreign demand (due to cuts in subsidies in Germany [...]
Chinese Solar Tariffs Upheld by ITC
In a widely expected move, the International Trade Commission ruled US solar manufacturers were harmed by the pricing tactics of Chinese competitors – affirming a series of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs imposed by the US Department of Commerce in October. Here’s their statement: “The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) today determined that a US industry is materially [...]
The Next Big Solar Growth Market: Romania?
With traditional European markets fading (or at least trying to fade, in Germany’s case), developers and manufacturers are scouring the globe for prospects in new and emerging markets. While many developers are turning to more obvious growth markets such as Japan or India, some more ambitious developers are turning to an often-overlooked bastion of solar [...]
China: Challenging Selected EU Solar Subsidies
After nearly a year of debate, the United States’ Commerce Department delivered a final ruling in October in regards to tariffs for Chinese-manufactured solar panels. The Commerce Department, in finding that China has in fact been illegally “dumping” solar products on the American marketplace, will impose 34 – 47% tariffs on about 60 Chinese solar panel manufacturers. Tariffs [...]
How Student Competitions Increase Innovation
It s a thrill to experience the energy, creativity, and enthusiasm of young people from around the world as they apply their curiosity and talents to address significant global challenges. There are budding scientists and innovators all around us and I have been fortunate to recently visit with some of the best. On an October [...]
Solar Industry Consolidation Continues
It’s almost as it were on cue—unfortunately. This week German giant Siemens said it was getting out of the solar industry. Now the Norwegian Renewable Energy Corp. (REC) said it would be a good candidate for a takeover. Both stories follow a report last week which forecasted that more than 180 companies in the solar [...]
Lux Research: Solar Manufacturers Invest in Equipment
The last couple years have been hard on solar panel manufacturers and many might not have a lot of capital for equipment upgrades, but they will have to pony-up to compete, according to a report from Lux Research. The research and analytics firm released its “Turning lemons into lemonade: Opportunities in the turbulent photovoltaic equipment [...]
Walmart’s China Supply Chain: Getting A Sustainable Facelift
One of the world’s largest corporations has announced a series of initiatives to make the company’s supply chain a bit more sustainable, particularly in China. At an event in Beijing, Walmart said that it will use the Sustainability Index to design more sustainable products, make its global supply chain more socially and environmentally accountable, and [...]
China’s Solar Water Heating Numbers in Perspective
Two days ago the Information Office of the State Council for the People’s Republic of China published the 2012 edition of their country’s energy policy. Two things struck me as I read the report. The first was where is our energy policy. Do we even have one or is it just left to be summed up [...]