China reduces solar power costs with large-scale manufacturing

Over the past decade, China has become the world's leading manufacturer of solar energy technologies; China's solar manufacturers have helped drive down the cost of solar power around the world with their large-scale production facilities and solar panel exports. In October, ClimateWorks traveled to China to get a sense of the scale of China's solar manufacturing efforts and talk to some local experts about China's goals for dramatically scaling up its domestic deployment of solar energy technologies.

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• China
• energy
• solar power
• photovoltaics
• technology
• cleantech
• climate change
• renewable energy
• clean energy
• carbon
• manufacturing
• green energy
• solar panels

[walmandroc]

@AndreGuille

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GreenEnergyNow.info

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I was so happy that I could save big on this.:)

Many thanks to it!!

[RODESCOVE07]

I work in the field and china has affect our prices up to a 40 % less in the product. This way is hard to compete. There is a lot PV companies that at the end of 2012 they are going to closed. Definetly the USA goverment have to do something against chinese products.

[andrewfink1]

@mphello Hey you only own something if you can get your flag on it.Thats why we own the fucking moon...its ours...they can try to put a flag on the sun

[KBLETHF]

The saddest thing is that we taught them how to make these....and they'll use this knowledge to drive us back to the dark ages....literally....

[ve3tru]

All the jobs created will be in china or Asia in manufacturing, and innovation, since the factory's are there not here. Jobs created installing these things will be minimum, they will be offset by the closing of power plants that create thousands of good paying jobs, replaced by contract/contractor jobs that pay little, and are famous for the use of illegal immigration. Further job losses will happen as the overall price of electricity will rise and and no one will be competitive anymore. sad

[mphello]

@Texmurphy51

And environmentalists are realists. And boycott activists are realists.

And vegan pro-animal rights activists and anti-natalists are realists, too.

How are you going to reduce world human overpopulation and the needless murder of 10 billion animals a year unless you go vegan and stop having kids? Huh?

Glad to meet a fellow realist.

[mphello]

This is why in 30 years, China will own all rights to the sun,

and we'll have to pay them a fee every time we use it. :)

[MelancholyApples]

@Isuckatpaintball2 not if we stay in school an contirbute to society!!!

[DonMega187]

doh. it's the typical chinese way. nothing new in this video

[gabigowriel]

@donsjuand nothing... nevermind :-)