Consumers can appreciate the lower costs of panels, but Western governments — in the middle of an economic downturn — have mixed feelings.
Many politicians claimed they could revive their flagging economies through a “green industrial revolution”, yet the amount of public investment required to compete with the Chinese is too high, both politically and economically.
And losing solar production jobs to the Far East, which is increasingly becoming a must for Western panel makers, is only adding to the growing unemployment problem and the sense that politicians are not doing enough to encourage economic growth.
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