How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In an influential 2006 report for the UK government, the economist Nicholas Stern predicted it would take decades for renewable power to become competitive with fossil fuels.
49% : China's support for solar developers is so unwavering, in part, because -- unlike the US (which is currently pumping more oil and gas than any nation in history) -- it's desperately short of domestic energy sources, other than coal reserves whose costs are ever-rising and whose fumes threaten to choke its cities.
46% : Tongwei Co.'s own accounts list a total of 2.19 billion yuan ($301 million) in government grants and tax concessions to the parent company since 2009, with more than half the total accrued last year as its capacity expansion went into overdrive.
46% : Alarm in the US and EU grew further when Russia weaponized its gas exports amid the invasion of Ukraine.

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