How US Reclaims Manufacturing Leadership. There’s definitely some hyperbole in the media covering China’s role in US solar manufacturing. The reality is that the U.S. ceded leadership on solar manufacturing to China decades ago. China headlines may generate clicks, but at the end of the day, there’s times when we need to partner with and leverage China’s manufacturing expertise to re-shore elements of the solar value chain. Companies like Invenergy hired more than 1,500 Americans to produce 5GW of solar modules through their majority stake in Illuminate, using Longi solar technology.
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