Subsidy Cuts & Solar Growth

Re-Set or Game Over? The solar industry, like many young industries, depends on substantial government subsidies to fuel growth and profitability. Weaning the industry off these generous subsidies, though, is proving to be a bumpy process. Germany has long been at the core of the solar industry’s growth, driving installations with generous Feed-In Tariff schemes [...]

Mystery of the Chinese Solar Subsidy

The Chinese Ministry of Finance proposed its “Solar Roofs Program” on March 23, 2009, in order to jumpstart the domestic Chinese solar market that has until now been virtually non-existent. By our estimates, demand in China was about 70 MW in 2008, or less than two percent of the 4.5 GW of worldwide demand. The [...]