How China’s Solar Industry Is Set Up To Be The New Green OPEC

How China’s Solar Industry Is Set Up To Be The New Green OPEC

That's right. China is preparing to be the world's Green OPEC. Who's ready to challenge them on that? As the West kicks fossil fuels to the curb, it is turning to only two sources of energy to generate electricity: wind and solar. Wind is still a European business, but that will change. Solar used to be a European business. It used to also be an American one. Now it's a Chinese industry. Of the top 10 solar companies in the world, 8 are Chinese. None are European (Norway's REC Group used to be their, but now owned by ChemChina). One is American “” First Solar FSLR of Ohio. Though they also manufacture in Asia. "One of the biggest mistakes the West has done on green policies to cut CO2 emissions and trying to reduce dependence on oil and gas producing nations is that the transition to renewable energy puts the West at the mercy of China," says David Zaikin, an energy industry consultant and founder of Key Elements Group in London. The Biden Administration wants to reduce fossil fuel use and the President has said on his campaign trail that he was aiming to have upwards of 500 million solar