Solar Supply Chain Q&A with Andy Klump

 
 

Environment China: Solar Supply Chain Q&A with Andy Klump

In this interview, CEA’s CEO, Andy Klump, talks to Environment China hosts Anders and Joyce about the PV and energy storage supply chains.

Covered in this episode:

  • The scale of the largest solar players

  • The upcoming solar and battery technologies and whether China is a tech leader

  • The overall health of the Chinese solar industry

  • The main challenges in the industry right now

  • Whether other countries have the chance to compete with China on solar given its leading position now

  • The relative complexity of he solar supply chain compared to the battery supply chain

  • The extent to which materials supply bottlenecks will continue in both industries

  • How clean energy will evolve—will it still be central plants, or will distributed RE plus storage play more of a role in China than it has so far?

 
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