How China captured the sun - and threw a shadow over Europe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : This sounds like great news for the EU, which recently pledged to triple its solar power capacity to 672 gigawatts by 2030.
60% : His company, Adani Green Energy, is constructing one solar farm so large that it will cover an area five times the size of Paris and have a capacity of 30 gigawatts - equal to a third of the UK's entire generating capacity.
50% : Europe's ambitious plans to expand green energy generation with "Made in EU" solar panels face a distinctly cloudy future as the continent faces a massive glut of the devices.Millions of solar panels are piling up in warehouses across the Continent because of a manufacturing battle in China, where cut-throat competition has driven the world's biggest panel-makers to expand production far faster than they can be installed.
45% : The European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC) has warned of a looming "wave of bankruptcies" including Dutch panel producer Exasun and Austrian module manufacturer Energetic.ESMC secretary general Johan Lindahl has appealed for "urgent" measures to safeguard the sector, calling for the EU to buy up all those unwanted solar panels to keep his members in business.

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