In the past few years, as the climate change issue, much attention the petrochemical emerging clean energy becomes the market is new bestow favor on, many investors and big enterprise also invest in including solar, wind power and geothermal energy development. Among them, the solar energy and wind power of the most rapid development, in addition to the government subsidies, enterprise and good profit prospects to investment.
However, in 2011 in Europe and America glue gun and financial crisis erupted debt, the solar energy industry suddenly appear the decline, mainly because of the European and American market demand fell sharply, the past few years of production, the blind lead to excessive expansion enterprise excess capacity, inventory costs rose sharply, many enterprise unbearable losses and went bankrupt, or supported earnestly, peremptory has stepped into the cold winter.
In contrast, the recession in the industry of solar energy, wind power in the next few years has become the most promising renewable energy industry, the industry is also through acquisitions, glue stick integration, gradually formed oligopolistic market, in order to avoid such as solar energy industry as too loose, each does things in his own way, small businesses to the situation of insufficient capital.
The solar energy industry in the past few years a significant expansion of the boom, are becoming the integration of current industry the main reason. But even if integration after merger of large-scale enterprise also to bear for Europe and America needs a great decrease, excess capacity cost pressure, layoffs in self-preservation, such as suntech, yingli, etc.
And to protect their own industry, the United States international trade commission (ITC) also in the preliminary decision before China's domestic lose beautiful solar battery exist antidumping, anti-subsidy concerns, to American relevant industry cause substantial damage; China's domestic aspects to this counters that the United States is protectionism, destroy the market competition. If the United States ITC to China a formal decision such as solar cells anti-dumping, anti-subsidy punitive tariffs, will further hurt China's domestic solar energy industry.
But in fact, the new industry of solar energy so the correction, the process of integration is normal, as the past the personal computer (PC) industry, home appliance industry and so on, vigorous period in the whole industry may be over hundreds of thousands of home of industry,, but then it started to integration and into the stable development, to mature industries.
Second, currently the solar energy industry in the so-called emerging developing countries still is not popular, because these countries are faced with rapid development, the resources needed to huge, such as solar energy and other new energy construction cost is too high, and maturity also is much less than the fossil energy, so solar energy related products mainly export to Europe and the United States, are still developing markets. But now, the market is under debt and fiscal crisis, leading to lower demand. Once the European and American market demand recovery, global solar market matures, believe that the industry is still have a future.
Wind power in the next few years will be an increase in investment
The international market research institutions Pike consulting company (PikeResearch issued a report, the next 5 ~ 6 years, wind power industry investment will increase, and be clean energy market the most powerful industry. The report estimates that by 2017, the global in wind power projects investment, will from us $2011 to $153 billion, installed the accumulation of the new total investment will rise to $820 billion, global total installed capacity (including land and offshore wind power projects) will also from 2011 years of 236 million kilowatts (KW) increased to 563 million KW.
But the future years global wind power industry, mainly from Asia, Europe and the north American 3 market place leading. Among them, led by the United States in North America, the wind power of the United States will grow about 3%, by the end of 2011 total installed capacity of about 7.5 million kw, estimated 2013 years ago will double, mainly for the second half of the 2012 years since the economy will rose, the enterprise will also increase investment.
In America in part, Brazil is expected to expand the investment in wind power generation, the hope can be in 2020 years ago will be from the current total installed capacity of 1.5 million kw, greatly increased to 11.5 million kw, wind power grid will be introduced, and thereby will wind power prices, from the current each hour 1000 kw $166, down to $111, even $55 of the low price, and hydroelectric power of each hour 1000 kw 27 to $30 competition.