It looks like we need to start tracking something else: the solar companies that are going bankrupt.
Earlier today I posted a story about an American solar company filing for bankruptcy, another one given financial backing by the US government. It appears the contagion is spreading: now Germany.
German solar panel maker Q-Cells SE, once the largest solar panel maker in the world, has said it will file for insolvency tomorrow following a failed attempt to restructure its debt. A court ruling last week prevented the company from completing a debt for equity swap.I count about four US solar companies have have declared bankruptcy in the last year, and now a German company. We're up to five (5).
Bloomberg reports on Q-Cells here.
And I thought this administration was dubbed intelligent! What a mess.
ReplyDeleteThe numbers never added up (though agile investors could and did get rich -- getting in and getting out early) but the Chinese mass producing panels at very low prices was the death knell for most.
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