“I think China becomes a 10GW-plus PV market much quicker than anyone realises,” says Frankl. “In my personal opinion this will be faster than we [the IEA] have said, or even what the Chinese government says.”
Although Beijing is meticulously calibrating the schemes supporting China’s solar market, including recent reductions to its Golden Sun programme, the government is nevertheless finding ways to back local copmanies, industry sources say.
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