Featured in China's strength – 05-2014

Quality lies in the eye of the beholder

PV quality: Chinese renewable energy manufacturers are well positioned to benefit from the growing demand in emerging economies. So, asks Dirk Kayser – Ph.D Candidate at the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles – what should Western firms do: compete or cooperate?

In his office in central Bangkok, Prof. Bundhit Euaarporn, the former head of the Thailand Energy Research Institute, muses a rather valid point: “Of course Thai developers would like to purchase European or American renewable energy products, for their better quality,” before adding: “but the bottleneck is the price. What we see now is that …

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