The Obama administration has lodged a formal request for dispute settlement consultations with the World Trade Organization, accusing China of unfairly subsidizing its wind turbine manufacturers.
Investment Analysis, Renewable Energy, Uncategorizedby Bill Dodson The United States Trade Representatives’ (USTR) office has taken up the cause of the United Steel Workers (USW) complaint against Chinese subsidies to the clean and renewable energy sector. The USTR this week formally launched a probe into claims the Chinese government supports all manners of subsidies. For a bureaucracy Washington D.C. ...
Investment Analysis, UncategorizedRetarding and then reversing environmental degradation through use of fossil fuels is likely the single greatest challenge humankind has met.
Investment Analysis, UncategorizedChina is set to produce half the world’s solar panels this year, up from very few just five years ago.
Investment Analysis, UncategorizedRight now, here on the ground, my colleagues and I see a great deal of the same old “good enough” approach to manufacturing and maintenance that have given most other Chinese products a bad rap from a quality and longevity point of view.
Investment Analysis, Uncategorizedby Bill Dodson A recent visit to a Photovoltaic (PV) panel factory in nearby Zhangjiagang brought home to me the nature of the go-go environment in which the alternative energy sector in China is operating. The plant is brand new. Actually, the entire 100,000 sq meter patch of land in which the factory sits is ...
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