October 1, 2010
by Bill Dodson It’s not everyday that a solar energy trade show occurs directly across the street from you office. The 8th Solar Fair was this year held in Suzhou, at the Suzhou International Exhibition Center, in Suzhou Industrial Park, from September 10-12, 2010. The Show was ostensibly meant to be a Chinese affair showing ...
Investment Analysis, Solar, Uncategorized
August 11, 2010
Clean and renewable energies operations in China have a bit of wiggle room for the next couple years because of favorable Chinese government subsidies for wind power, and the national and local policies of other countries in the PV market (especially in Europe).
Clean Energy, Investment Analysis, Renewable Energy, Solar, Uncategorized, Wind
July 13, 2010
Chinese companies are the world’s largest producers of solar water heaters, and the Chinese domestic market account for over 65% of the world’s installed capacity.
Clean Energy, Solar
June 13, 2010
by Bill Dodson It doesn’t take long when you live and work in China to realize that altruism seldom fits into Chinese business calculations. As far as the renewable energies manufacturing sector is concerned, the Chinese government and entrepreneurs see the potential for riches to be made from the manufacture of equipment that captures, transforms ...
Solar
June 1, 2010
Prospects for growth for the company in the China market are huge, as Chinese PV makers have until a recent change in government policy been pouring a poisonous slurry into plastic bags they pile up in the back of their factory compounds.
Solar
May 17, 2010
Nearly all the Chinese PV producers my colleague and I saw at the show boasted start-up dates of 2007 and 2008, as though the weight of 4,000 years of history filled in the rest of the technical and quality advancements upon which the industry based its reputation.
Solar
June 17, 2008
Julian Wong over at the The Green Leap Forward blog recently published an entry on the development of the solar power industry in Chengdu in particular, and in China – from a policies point of view – in general. I liked the lengthy article because I learned something significant about how a China x-tier city ...
Solar