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ONES TO WATCH: Outside China, solar manufacturing is booming

After years of bankruptcies and retrenchment across the solar manufacturing sector, most major players are once again profitable and expanding their production capacities to prepare for the expected explosion of global demand.

5 January 2016 8:16 GMT Updated 28 September 2016 9:18 GMT

By Karl-Erik Stromsta

Yet amid this rebound something curious is happening — or, rather, not happening. The new factories are not being built in China.

Beijing’s carefully calculated, highly successful takeover of the world’s upstream solar industry was arguably the most important story to come out of the renewables sector in the past decade. Yet none of the new module production capacity announced in 2015 was in China.

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