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International issues

Global Industry: Martin A. Green, of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics at the University of New South Wales, takes us through the complexities of ownership and nationality at some of the PV industry’s key players.

Superficially, the nationality of the PV manufacturing industry seems clear. Chinese and American manufacturers dominate the top 10 manufacturing positions, with Japanese, German, Taiwanese, and South Koreans also present.The reality is far more complex. From the Chinese perspective, all “Chinese” manufacturers on the 2015 top 10 list (see chart on p. 75) are designated “wholly …

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