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Are German solar companies taking over the world's solar power supply chain?

He says that starting around a decade ago, German companies watched as their Chinese rivals took over every step of the global solar power supply chain. Last year, China made 97% of the silicon wafers that go into solar panels and more than three-quarters of the world's solar panels themselves.

Why are Europe's solar installations so cheap?

This capacity growth has led to the cheap prices that enabled Europe’s record-breaking solar installations. According to the IEA, although Europe imported an unprecedented 26GW of photovoltaic modules in 2021, the bill was just a third the cost of 2010, when it imported only 15GW.

Is solar photovoltaics ready to power a sustainable future?

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Are Chinese solar panels moving from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia?

Many Chinese solar panel companies have already been moving their polysilicon supply from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia, in anticipation of last year’s US import blocks. Astronergy, a solar-panel maker, opened a factory in Thailand specifically for US customers, using polysilicon made by Wacker Chemie in Germany.