Over the last five years, wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) reduced onshore wind turbine blade production capacity in developed countries. Onshore blade production (which is a labor-intensive process) for markets outside of China is increasingly located in countries with low...

This paper examines trends in U.S. cell and module trade over the period from 2006 to 2010 The results of this analysis indicate that recent growth in the U.S. and global solar photovoltaic (PV) markets, expanding U.S. PV production capacity, and growing PV production in China, Mexico, and other...