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Re:Commercial perovskite solar modules at SNEC 2024 trade show by mensetmanusman on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:48AM (#40704258)
China dumped excess capacity at below material cost and put out a few dozen solar companies in the 2010 era. The US learned from their mistake that they are in an economic battle for manufacturing infrastructure.
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Re:Commercial perovskite solar modules at SNEC 2024 trade show by pjc50 on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:38AM (#40704577)
The alleged "dumping" doesn't seem to appear on the price chart? Prices just keep getting lower? There's no U-shaped point where they go low and go up again?

As I keep pointing out, if the Chinese government want to subsidize the US renewables transition we should let them. The ridiculous alternative is to then put tariffs on goods which make them more expensive and subsidies to make them affordable again. In America, it's only a "free market" when corporate political donors are winning it.

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Re:Commercial perovskite solar modules at SNEC 2024 trade show by AYBABTME on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:44AM (#40705041)
When China becomes your only supplier for something, they do stuff like "cut off DEF fluid shipments to Korea because they made us mad" -> https://www.kedglobal.com/supply-chain/newsView/ked202111040... .
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Re:Commercial perovskite solar modules at SNEC 2024 trade show by mensetmanusman on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:25AM (#40705948)
We would let them if they were low risk suppliers, just like we let Korea subsidize the global oled supply.
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