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The Chinese Solar Machine bi2560443 Chinese manufacturers have dominated the international market for conventional solar panels by building bigger factories faster. Now they need to innovate to maintain lead. Ten years ago, solar panels were made mostly the United States, Germany, and Japan. Chinese manufacturers made almost none. But by 2006, the Chinese company Suntech Power had the capacity to make over a ..

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