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Perspective

Mar. 8, 2012

Solar industry’s future after latest wave of bankruptcies

The bankruptcies keep coming - is the sun setting on the solar industry? By R. Todd Johnson of Jones Day


The news for the solar industry just keeps getting worse. In the last week alone:


China announced a new five-year plan to grow its expanding market share by increasing polysilicon production to 50,000 tons annually and its cell and module manufacturing capacity to 5 gigawatts annually, all by 2015.


Following Germany's "doubling-down" on feed-in-tariffs after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany's solar subsidies were slashed 20-30 p...

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