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This only makes sense way downstream of massive subsidies, not the least of which is China determining at a federal level that they wanted to produce an obscene amount of solar panels.

And now it's complicated because the ideal move would just be to say "thank you" and buy all the cheap panels and batteries, but that hollows out your own industry.



Speaking of subsidies it is often the case that fossil fuel industries are very heavily subsidised, yet they are still losing out to solar panels.


There is very little in the way of domestic manufacturing of solar panels at least in the USA.




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