Chinese Solar Industry

• The Chinese PV industry plans to grow 400% in the next five years, even though the industry is still in its infancy.
• Production capacity is expected to grow to 820 MW/yr in 2006. 
• Silicon production capacity is growing at an even faster rate, with production of 10,000 tons a year of solar grade silicon planned by 2007. 
• They plan to have a cullmulative 450 MW of solar power installed by 2010.  The goal for 2020 is 8,000 MW of installed capacity.
• Over 250 companies comprise their solar industry.

This are some of the conclusions found in a survey report from SolarPlaza entitled “The Chinese PV Market and Industry”. The press release announcing this publication can be found here.

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[JesseJenkins]

Just one more bit of evidence that Red China is really going green...