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Originally Posted by octothorp
US solar producers may eventually find themselves unable to compete... stocks of US solar manufacturers are already in the toilet compared to a decade ago.
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Virtually all of them, regardless of home country, are in the tank, many are bankrupt or on the verge of going bankrupt.
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Meanwhile, with Europe and China pushing ahead with utility-scale solar
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Most of the Europe has already plateaued, as Europe's less than ideal location makes it hard to add much solar. The poster child of European solar, Germany is barely adding any more capacity even though solar still only accounts for 7% of electricity generation. China is a building a lot of everything and even the widely published accounts of how China is turning away from coal is probably wrong as 2016 saw an increase in electricity generation from coal and Q1 2017 set a new record.
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Right now, building utility-scale solar is mostly a first-world concern, but there is going to be a developing-world market as well. North Africa should be a massive solar market in the coming years, both for their own power sources as well as exporting to Europe. The US is currently positioned to be a non-factor in those markets.
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I doubt it, North African countries may build some solar especially if foreigners pay for it but no country that wants to be developed can run on electricity that only works part of the day.