silence7@slrpnk.net to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago40GW of solar panels gathering dust in European warehouseswww.energymonitor.aiexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
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minus-squareChup@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoThe problem is the origin and forced labour. Most of the cheap panels in storage are made in China, while the European manufacturer’s cannot produce at the same price. China also uses Uyghur forced labour to get those low prices https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57124636 So making them cheaper is not really an option. But it could work the other way around by adding tariffs to Chinese panels or restrict imports if there is a connection to forced labour. The US already added tariffs to Chinese solar panels last year and expanded them https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-says-solar-imports-four-southeast-asian-countries-were-dodging-china-tariffs-2022-12-02/
minus-squareCookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoThat sounds like a reason to size them and forbid further imports of that stuff.
The problem is the origin and forced labour.
Most of the cheap panels in storage are made in China, while the European manufacturer’s cannot produce at the same price. China also uses Uyghur forced labour to get those low prices https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57124636
So making them cheaper is not really an option. But it could work the other way around by adding tariffs to Chinese panels or restrict imports if there is a connection to forced labour. The US already added tariffs to Chinese solar panels last year and expanded them https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-says-solar-imports-four-southeast-asian-countries-were-dodging-china-tariffs-2022-12-02/
That sounds like a reason to size them and forbid further imports of that stuff.