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Regional shifts in PV manufacturing

Solar manufacturing landscape: Regional shifts in manufacturing are common to all industries and, in general, the trend is to the least expensive country to manufacture the goods in question. This oversimplification does not offer much insight into why regional shifts occur in PV cell and module manufacturing.

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pv magazine

29 Jul 2015

The U.S. was the PV cell and module shipment leader until 1999, when Japan, buoyed by a domestic subsidy for its residential market, looked to gain market share in the U.S. and Germany. During this period the markets in the U.S. (California), Germany (100,000 roofs) and Japan had the benefit of incentives. Manufacturers from Japan …

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