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The Solar Explosion

Author(s) -

Amiyo Basu

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

mechanical engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1943-5649

pISSN - 0025-6501

DOI - 10.1115/1.2020-oct3

Subject(s) - german , photovoltaic system , china , quality (philosophy) , engineering , solar power , industrial revolution , focus (optics) , production (economics) , manufacturing engineering , commerce , power (physics) , business , electrical engineering , economics , political science , history , philosophy , physics , macroeconomics , archaeology , epistemology , optics , quantum mechanics , law

There were two breakthroughs that led to a veritable revolution in photovoltaic prices. The commonly told story is that China started manufacturing lower-quality panels and dumped them on the world market at prices near (or even below) the cost of production. The truth is more complicated. Chinese manufacturing at scale played a part, but so did German industrial policy and a focus on improving the complete power system, not just the PV cells.

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