EGEB: Despite COVID, China’s solar panel output rises 15.7% in 1H of 2020
China’s solar panel production industry appears to have skirted the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of 2020.
The country produced 59 gigawatts’ worth of solar panels in the first half of 2020, up 15.7% from 2019, said Wang Bohua, vice chairman of the China Photovoltaic Industry Association, today.
Wang Bohua also said that shipments of completed solar modules reached 27.7 GW from January to May, which was down only 1.8% from 2019. Exports in that time period were expected to have reached 33-35 GW.
China is the largest producer and buyer of solar panels in the world.
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