Featured in How low can they go? – 07-2018

The darkest hour before the dawn

China’s May 31 solar policy changes sent reverberations through the global PV industry. Vincent Shaw reports from Shanghai on the 31/5 policy, its forecast impact, drivers, and the 11th hour efforts to avert what some describe as a “car crash” of a policy shift.

 On June 1, only one day after the world’s largest solar exhibition, the SNEC Expo 2018 in Shanghai, a great hit to China’s PV industry. The impact was triggered by an official notification jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the National Energy Administration (NEA). The …

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