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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Yes energy in Germany is more expensive, but it's more that Germany spends money to develop by purchasing/testing expensive set ups in order to bring costs down. They're the reason solar costs are now 95% cheaper than the first panels installed in Germany
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China's industrial might is the reason solar panels are cheaper. Germany saying they kick-started it is something they say to console themselves after they lost 100K jobs in solar panel manufacturing.
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The overall drop in employment has been mostly due to the collapse of Germany's solar power industry over the past decade, as many companies were forced out of business thanks to cheaper competitors from China scooping up most of the market. The number of jobs in solar PV panel production and installation fell from a record 133,000 in 2011 to under 28,000 seven years later. In the wind industry, employment dropped from its record level of roughly 108,000 in 2016 to under 70,000 just two years later.
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https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news...ewables-sector