Capital Intensive China

Solar – overcapacity blues

  • Published 15 Dec 2011

It will take most of 2012 to shift inventories, with some help from demand in the domestic market.

The mood of gloom at the December Inter Solar expo in Beijing was alleviated somewhat by visitors like Hycainth Udemba, managing director of Prostar Global, a Nigerian installer of solar-power installations which sources solar panels from Suntech (STP:NYSE), China’s biggest solar panel maker in volume terms.

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