Solar Trade Wars are becoming the norm in the globe these days with the major one between USA and China.The instigator is the German solar company Solarworld which helped started the ITC Case in the USA. India too is thinking of putting some kind of import duty to protect its domestic solar panel producers which are dropping like flies. Chinese solar panel producers have swamped the world with super cheap solar modules. though a part of their low prices can be explained by competitive advantage, another part is due to\u00a0 the labor, capital subsidy given by the Chinese government. It would not take\u00a0 a rocket scientist to say that some of the biggest Chinese solar companies are insolvent and would be dead within a month without Chinese state loans.<\/p>\n
Germany might start an a dumping duty on Chinese solar panels<\/a> due to the following reasons<\/p>\n 1) Germany has just got too much solar energy right now with an explosion of solar panel installations in December.It has to slow down the solar panel installation which despite 50% cut in Feed in Tariffs is still making new records.Germany Solar Energy Market is the Biggest<\/a>in the world by far with more than 20 GW<\/p>\n The influx of cheap solar panels from China has let the December 2012 explode to almost 2-3 GW according to the German solar association BSW. The high rates of return of over 10% due to super cheap Chinese solar panels at 80-90c\/watt has been the major reason for the explosion in demand which could be the biggest month in Germany ever. While German Solar Market has remained robust as ever,the\u00a0German solar panel\u00a0producers like Solon, Sunways have been vanquished with a number of major solar companies failing and getting acquired. The Asian solar companies have been the major beneficiaries of this demand growth in Germany and Europe.<\/p>\n The massive rise in demand will imply that according to the EEG ,t here will be a 15% cut in July 2012 after a 15% cut in January 2011. This would bring the solar FIT prices quite low and provide a restraint to the galloping German solar energy installations which is reaching more than 25 GW .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 2) German solar panel<\/a> companies are going bankrupt (5000 in 2011) and solar jobs are disappearing<\/p>\n 3) Chinese solar manufacturers are gaining the most from the German Demand.They are starting to acquire German solar companies<\/a> on the cheap effectively taking over the German solar industry.<\/p>\n LDK has managed to spend 22 million Euros despite burning hundred of millions of dollars in cash because it has got the Chinese government trillions backing it.So while Western companies burn and crash,the big crony Chinese companies can expand and acquire.<\/strong><\/p>\n Most of the German solar manufacturing industry is finished and it is unlikely that except a couple of them like SM Solar or Wacker will live to see 2013.Q-Cells too should go bankrupt or get consolidated .Note despite European companies shifting factories to Asia ,they just can\u2019t compete.Some of the smaller module makers with 20 MW plants have seen huge losses with the equipment not selling for 10 cents on the dollar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Solarworld seeks to join forces with European peers to take its case to the European Commission\u2019s competition agency after Chinese panels were allegedly dumped in recent months on German markets at below-market costs, Asbeck said today.A year-end solar-panel installation rush in Germany, which added a record 3 gigawatts in December according to the grid regulator, was sparked in part by \u201cmassive\u201d panel inventory from Chinese manufacturers installed in large-scale solar plants at \u201cdumping prices,\u201d Asbeck said in a phone interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Solar Trade Wars are becoming the norm in the globe these days with the major one between USA and China.The instigator is the German solar company Solarworld which helped started the ITC Case in the USA.India too is thinking of putting some kind of import duty to protect its domestic solar panel producers which are dropping like flies.Chinese solar panel producers have swamped the world with super cheap solar modules.Though a part of their low prices can be explained by competitive advantage, another part is due to the labor,capital subsidy given by the Chinese government.It would not take a rocket scientist to say that some of the biggest Chinese solar companies are insolvent and would be dead within a month without Chinese state loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,45,52],"tags":[1070,1210,1353,1373,1637,1685,1720,1886,1924,2243,2256,2376,3138,3269,3485,3534,3539,3549,3936,4070,4143,4829,4831,4886,4887,4934,5147,5197,5264,5291,5328,5532,5746,5764],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany-europe-world-markets-world-markets","category-solar-renewable-energy-greeninvest","category-solar-panels","tag-chinese","tag-conergy","tag-customers","tag-debt","tag-efficiency","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-factory","tag-feed-in-tariff","tag-government","tag-green","tag-grid-parity","tag-investment","tag-jv","tag-ma","tag-management","tag-manufacturing","tag-marketshare","tag-outsourcing","tag-polysilicon","tag-price-war","tag-solar-fabrik","tag-solar-farms","tag-solar-installer","tag-solar-installers","tag-solar-panel-brands","tag-solar-wafers","tag-solon","tag-stock-market","tag-subsidy","tag-supply","tag-thin-film","tag-utility","tag-vertical-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Solarworld Planning China Anti-Dumping Case in Europe, CEO Says<\/a><\/h4>\n