United States Renewable Energy Sector Is Falling Behind The Rest Of The World

As China and Europe implement policies to encourage clean energy market growth, US clean energy companies are focusing their efforts overseas - resulting in lost jobs and opportunities in the US. Analysts believe that unless the US government does more to encourage job and market growth in the clean energy sector, that the country will fall behind China and Europe in achieving a global leadership position in this growing market sector. See the following article from Money Morning for more on this.

If the United States doesn't take drastic measures to engineer new clean energy policies and investment initiatives, it will continue to take a back seat to China and Europe, which are driving the clean energy market toward a profitable future.

Both clean energy companies and a skilled workforce are heading overseas, where government policies are creating a more welcoming and promising market for clean energy products.

Take Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar, Inc (Nasdaq: ESLR). In 2008, it used $58 million in government aid to open a new Massachusetts factory to build silicon wafers and cells and assemble solar panels. But in November 2009, it announced the assembly of solar panels would be moved to Wuhan, China, where solar panel manufacturing will cost far less than in the United States.

Labels: ESLR, Evergreen Solar, Solar Energy, Solar Stocks, Solar Technology

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