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Sun is setting on China's solar industry
Sun is setting on China's solar industry
China Daily: The solar industry will be suffering more than other renewable energy sectors, as large manufacturers expect a drop in solar module prices in 2009 and solar startups that grew too fast are squeezed in the tighter market. Last week, the word's largest solar module maker Suntech Power ...
A-Power Energy
apowerenergy.com — A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Limited (NASDAQ: APWR), through its Chinese operating subsidiaries Liaoning GaoKe Energy Group (GaoKe... Energy) and Liaoning GaoKe Energy Saving and Thermoelectricity Design Research Institute (GaoKe Design), is an ... (more) A-Power Energy
Bill McKibben Interview
progressive.org — The Progressive: A little more than two years ago, bestselling author Bill McKibben's life was filled with... canoe trips, mountaineering, writing, and teaching. The author of a dozen books and a scholar in residence at Vermont's Middlebury College, ... (more) Bill McKibben Interview
The benefits of an intercontinental energy grid (ScienceAlert)
The benefits of an intercontinental energy grid (ScienceAlert)
sciencealert.com.au — Imagine an Asian electricity grid anchored by China at one end and Australia on the other. The... grid would carry and distribute hemispheric solar, geothermal, wind and wave energy. The vision is big. But so's the problem of climate change. Start by ... (more) The benefits of an intercontinental energy ...
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Is this the end of China's solar boom?
Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — ... said the downturn has the potential to weed out companies and establish environmental standards. "Some small Chinese silicon manufacturers are criticized for polluting the environment with production waste, damaging the industry's reputation and unsettling the market by over-cutting production costs. So it might offer new opportunities for Chinese solar PV industry to reshuffle its structure," she said She also predicted revenue will rebound in 2010 as price declines slow. Read the article »

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