Comment by randbyte
3 days ago
Instead we got home solar system become very affordable over the past decade.
And driving out US manufacturers isn’t even the main goal for China. They know their huge risk on reliance on petroleum and was doing everything they can to mitigate that. Building out a huge solar manufacturing base is their answer. Now they are reducing petro imports YoY.
But the US was a leader in manufacturing solar panels and could have facilitated the same price decline trajectory. Selling a product in a market below manufacturing cost specifically to bankrupt domestic manufacturers is an illegal trade practice under the WTO called dumping.