Featured in Chinese Connection – 04-2010

Collaboration on a global scale

China: So far Chinese PV companies have done quite well even without a domestic market. Now, the Solar Roofs plan and the Golden Sun program are causing the home market to develop. But Chinese module makers are further developing their export markets and upscaling vertical production processes.

Until last year, China’s solar industry had been the odd man out. In the government’s rush to develop wind energy over the past few years, China’s 400 PV companies across the value chain were largely left to fend for themselves. More than 95 percent of Chinese manufactured cells and modules were exported overseas last year. …

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