China has been bristling against the hostility in solar trade from major partners such as US and Europe. The dominance of the Chinese solar panel industry with almost 60% of the global demand has made other countries see red. Thousands of Western solar companies have closed, even as China keeps on adding solar capacity. The […]

The Chinese solar panel industry has become dominant through a mix of strong government support, aggressive expansion, billions of cheap finance from state owned banks and low costs. However this has angered other countries where hundreds of solar companies have gone bankrupt unable to fight against the low costs of cheap Chinese made solar modules. […]

Updated on: 14/03/2014 Suntech Solar Panels Review Suntech (STP) was the world’s biggest producer of solar panels in 2010 and was one the first companies to set up operations in China. Its example was followed by a host of other Chinese companies. Suntech has been slow to expand compared to the fast growing small companies in […]

Europe-China Anti Dumping Trade War Initiates The worst fears of the Chinese solar panel producers have come true with Europe starting the history’s biggest anti dumping case against their products. A trade group called ProSun led by German solar panel maker Solarworld, complained against super cheap imports of solar modules from China to the EU […]

Global Green Battles The Global Green War had started with the US imposing duties on imports of Chinese made solar panels and cells. Subsequently dumping charges were also imposed on wind energy equipment made in China as well. China has not been able to do much against these duties as it exports almost 80-90% of […]

The CEO of the biggest solar cell company in the world JA Solar has said that he sees the current vicious industry downturn leading to 90% of all solar companies becoming extinct and a shortage in the market to hit the industry in 2014. However what he left unsaid was that JA Solar might itself […]