Featured in Southern China's rooftop gig – 01-2013

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EPC ranking: In 2012 it seemed that Chinese solar project developers materialized out of thin air, while several German companies completely dropped off the charts. Market researchers and analysts shed light on the background and develop scenarios for how solar PV engineering, procurement and construction companies might develop in the future.

What’s a company to do when it produces rafts of solar modules and nobody is buying? It can either shutter its factories or begin installing panels itself in grand style. First Solar is doing both, and it is apparently meeting with success. The largest producer of thin film modules has now become the world’s largest …

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