German solar industry collapsing: unable to make solar panels from solar power
About 90% of solar panels installed in Germany come from China, and earlier this year one of the last solar panel manufacturers closed in Germany.
Last week, what was left of the industry begged for mercy (and subsidies) which they didn’t get. Now another German solar panel manufacturer has closed down.
For some cruel reason German factories which are close to their customers, can’t compete with distant foreign factories which have access to slave labor, fossil fueled shipping and cheap coal fired electricity?
The bigger question, seemingly, is how did the country that invented the printing press, diesel engines, and the theory-of-relativity get fooled by such a stupid ploy? Someone told them they could save the world with unreliable energy, so they converted their generators to unreliable ones, only to discover that they can’t afford to use unreliable generators to make the unreliable generators they need to keep saving the world?
The only government stupider than Germany is the one that has already seen how badly this worked out and announces they’re going to do the same thing. Australia is not only ten years too late, but China has flooded the market to the point where people are using solar panels as garden fences, and we have our own glut of solar power at midday.
The last hope of the German solar industry was a government mandated “bonus” for people who bought German solar panels.
April 23rd:
German solar industry warns “last chance” for sector’s renaissance could be missed
Carsten Körnig, head of solar power lobby group BSW, …added that the solar industry was disappointed by the decision to leave out a “resilience bonus” for installations made in Europe. Given the stiff competition between producers in the U.S. and Asia for securing a share of the market in solar panel production, Körnig said including the bonus in the package would allow Germany to achieve greater supply security for the important future technology, adding that it is “perhaps the last chance for a renaissance of Germany’s solar industry”.
April 30:
Solarwatt becomes second solar PV producer to halt production in Germany in 2024
Carolina Kyllmann CleanEnergyWire
Solar panel manufacturer Solarwatt is set to halt production of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in its factory in Dresden, business daily Handelsblatt reported. “Under the current circumstances, running a production facility here in Germany is extremely difficult economically, and we cannot justify this,” Solarwatt head Detlef Neuhaus told the newspaper. The plant with an annual production capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) will close “for the time being” at the end of August, with 190 jobs directly affected by the shutdown.
China generates 60% of its electricity with coal, while Germany uses 32% coal, and 30% solar-and-wind power. What should Germany do, bring back coal, or get some slaves?
Solar panels are now in the “top five” worst slave industries in the world, yet still barely any of the morality-police care. They’re apparently too busy atoning for slavery they didn’t cause that doesn’t exist anymore to worry about slaves that are alive today.
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Tom
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Here we have China ignoring all presumed causes of man made global warming by opening up coal plants every month. They are adding to the global warming problem which is causing the loon birds in other parts of the world to use more and more windmills and solar panels of which China supplies 90%. It’s the perfect con. Henry Gondorff would be proud.
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Kevin Doyle
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Tom,
Agreed.
The better part of the story is lots of folks make lots of $$$ when they tell lies.
Kind of like when some guy on the sidewalk in Manhattan asks you to put down money on a game with three shells and one marble.
No gas in our atmosphere, which is colder than the surface, can increase the temperature of anything. Basic Thermodynamics.
Yet, if one repeats a lie long enough…
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VOWG
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China is not adding to global warming.
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Left Coast
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But they are the World’s Largest Emitter of Particulate Pollution, India is Second . . .
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Wisenox
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AI drawn images are signed by jehovah.
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