Solar companies cut costs and prices sharply to maintain market share. That led to a few low-cost survivors while many other competitors were driven out of business in China and around the world. The deserted blue-walled factory of Hunan Sunzone, left, which once made solar panels in Changsha, China.
A 2020 report from the Canberra-based Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that 80,000 or more have been assigned to forced labour gangs in other parts of the country, placing China’s entire output of solar panels under suspicion.
Nature 509 , 563 ( 2014) Cite this article There is a downside to China having become the largest producer and consumer of solar energy ( J. A. Mathews and H. Tan Nature 508, 319; 2014 ). The rapidly expanding manufacture of solar photovoltaic products is risking serious environmental pollution.
China has a massive hold on the global supply chain for solar panels and parts – including in the US – but there have been allegations of human rights abuses in its manufacturing, which China has denied, in addition to trade concerns.
China accounts for more than 80% of the market for solar panels at all stages of production, according to the International Energy Agency, more than double domestic demand for those products. Its huge economies of scale have made solar power more affordable, but also concentrated the supply chain inside China.
Washington also says China improperly pressures foreign companies to hand over technology. China accounts for more than 80% of the market for solar panels at all stages of production, according to the International Energy Agency, more than double domestic demand for those products.
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