schizoidman@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoMany US solar factories are lagging. Except those China ownswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldenergy@slrpnk.net
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minus-squarenekandro@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 months ago“Heavily subsidized supply chains” Let’s just call it what it is: economies of scale. China makes up 80% of the polysilicon market. The US? Barely 5%. Scale is the strongest subsidy of them all.
“Heavily subsidized supply chains”
Let’s just call it what it is: economies of scale. China makes up 80% of the polysilicon market. The US? Barely 5%. Scale is the strongest subsidy of them all.