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UAE's Masdar to develop wind, solar plants in Azerbaijan
Abu Dhabi stateowned renewable resource firm Masdar will develop 2 solar plants and a. wind farm in Azerbaijan with 1 gigawatt of capacity, it said on. Tuesday. Masdar signed arrangements with Azeri state oil firm Socar for. the tasks on Tuesday. We are holding 75%, Socar is holding 25%, Maryam Al . Mazrouei, Masdar's head of development and investment for the. CIS region, informed . The 445 MW Bilasuvar Solar PV Job and the 315 MW. Neftchala Solar PV Project are anticipated to become functional by. completion of 2026 or early 2027 and the 240 MW Absheron-Garadagh. Onshore Wind Job must be running by the end of 2027, she. stated. Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, will host the COP29 environment. summit in November. This develops on the UAE's history of collaboration to. boost this country's green growth development and promote. sustainable development internationally, COP28 President Sultan Al . Jaber, who chairs Masdar and is president of UAE state oil. giant ADNOC, said in Baku on Tuesday. Almost 200 countries concurred at COP28 to transition away. from nonrenewable fuel sources. Al Jaber repeated on Tuesday that UAE environment fund Alterra. will raise more than $200 billion in investments over the next. six years. The $30 billion fund stated when it released in December it. aimed to draw in $250 billion of institutional investments by. 2030. Alterra was established by Lunate, an Abu Dhabi option. investment manager owned by its senior management and Chimera. Financial investment, which becomes part of a service empire managed by. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's nationwide security. adviser and sibling of the country's president.
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South Korea, Africa leaders pledge much deeper ties, important mineral development
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and the leaders of African countries settled on Tuesday to forge deeper trade and business cooperation and launched a crucial minerals discussion targeted at sustainable development of the continent's resources. Hosting a first-ever top with the leaders of 48 African countries, Yoon said South Korea would increase development aid for Africa to $10 billion over the next six years as it aims to tap the continent's abundant mineral resources and prospective as a. huge export market. The Important Minerals Dialogue released by South Korea and. Africa will set an example for a stable supply chain through. mutually useful cooperation and contribute to sustainable. advancement of mineral resources worldwide, Yoon stated in. his closing remarks. He likewise promised to provide $14 billion in export funding to. promote trade and financial investment for South Korean companies in. Africa. South Korea is one of the world's biggest energy buyers and. is home to leading semiconductor manufacturers. It is also home to. the world's fifth-largest automaker, Hyundai Motor Group, which. is making a push for electrification. Partnering with Africa, which has 30% of the world's. reserves of crucial minerals including chrome, cobalt and. manganese is vital, Yoon's office has said. In a joint statement issued by South Korea, the African. Union (AU) and its member countries, the leaders pledged to speed. up talks for financial partnership contracts and trade and. investment promo structures. They likewise called for advancing cooperation for Africa's food. security with South Korea's assistance with agricultural technology. and clever farming. African leaders welcomed South Korea's Tech4Africa. initiative targeted at supporting the education and training of. Africa's young population. AU chair and Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani,. at a joint news conference with Yoon, said African countries. were aiming to gain from Korea's experience in developing. human resources, industrialisation and digital transformation. VAST AND FAST-GROWING MARKET Yoon said 33 presidents participated in the top. Yoon has actually proposed shared development as a pillar of cooperation. with the continent and said the leaders accepted expand trade. and financial investment by establishing institutional structures to. facilitate them. By reaching out with deals to assist with industrial. facilities and digital improvement, South Korea is attempting. to tap into a vast and fast-growing market that is home to 1.4. billion people, most of whom are 25 or younger. The joint statement stated the leaders identified the. instability of international supply chains, and that future markets. progressively depended on the stable supply of mineral resources. In this context, we consent to introduce the Korea-Africa. Critical Minerals Dialogue throughout this top which will serve. as an important institutional structure for boosting. cooperation between Korea and Africa, it stated. Park Jong-dae, a previous South Korean ambassador to South. Africa and Uganda, argued Western and Chinese models of. advancement had actually stopped working African nations, and South Korea used. a valuable alternative path. The essence of the Korean design of advancement cooperation. is human development, and about management, instead of about. provision of assistance per se, he said. Korea has the experience and know-how of advancement ... while numerous African countries have tremendous possibilities for. advancement based upon yet to be checked out, untapped resources and. endowment, and dynamic young population, he stated. On Wednesday, South Korean business leaders will host a. service top focused on investment, industrial development. and food security. Yoon separately held talks with 25 leaders on the sidelines. of the summit, his workplace stated. Yoon agreed with the leaders of Tanzania to provide $2.5. billion concessional loans and Ethiopia for $1 billion funding. to go to facilities, science and technology and health and. urban development. Kenyan President William Ruto stated South Korea would offer. $ 485 million concessional advancement funding.
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First LNG Canada freight might provide earlier than planned, Shell states
Shellled LNG Canada, the nation's first gas export terminal, could provide its first cargo earlier than previously planned, an executive at the British business stated. The C$ 40 billion ($ 29 billion) liquefied gas (LNG). project in British Columbia is in the lasts of. construction ahead of its organized startup in mid-2025, Shell's. head of integrated gas and upstream Zoe Yujnovich informed . in an interview. The giant job is central to Shell's ambitions to grow. its gas liquefaction capability by 25-30% between 2022 and 2030 to. around 40 million metric loads annually (mtpa). It's constantly a balance in between when we might get the very first. cargo, which certainly might well be previously, versus what I'm. truly searching for that is a sustainable drumbeat of every freight. that we get coming regularly and consistently, Yujnovich stated. You can get somewhat earlier cargoes however you may require to. then do extra work that follows that, she included,. without offering more information. Shell is the world's top trader of LNG, which it says will. play a central function for decades even as economies look for to stage. out their dependence on nonrenewable fuel sources. LNG Canada, which will produce 14 mtpa at its very first stage of. development, is a joint endeavor between Shell, PetroChina. , Malaysia's Petronas, Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation. and South Korea's Kogas. The Kitimat terminal will process approximately 2 billion cubic feet. per day (bcfd), representing 11% of current Canadian gas output. and making it a significant source of income for the provincial and. federal governments. The task partners are working on the last aspects of the. task such as the installation of systems after the completion. of TC Energy's Coastal GasLink pipeline into the. terminal, Yujnovitch stated. A decision on whether to go on with the 2nd stage of. the job is anticipated towards completion of this year, as the. partners evaluate the expenses of the growth, consisting of the effect. of suggested government rules on carbon emissions and power. generation, she said.
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CORRECTED-Stocks, dollar droop as data indicate flagging United States economy
Global shares reduced on Tuesday as investors thought about the possibility that the U.S. economy's exceptionalism may be starting to relax as manufacturing activity there even more weakened, in turn pushing the dollar to multimonth lows. In India, share markets sold greatly after early vote counting revealed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP)- led alliance was not headed for a landslide win as anticipated. The dollar skimmed its most affordable in over two months versus the euro and the pound, while U.S. federal government bond yields have pulled away over the past six weeks, as investors have purchased into the idea that the economy is slowing enough to warrant rate cuts this year. It is easy to understand why the market behaved as it did in the very first quarter, however if one looked at broader signs, there have constantly been specific signs that maybe the story isn't. rather as strong as may have been anticipated, Daiwa Capital. financial expert Chris Scicluna said. Most people would have presumed that where the fed funds. rate is right now remains in restrictive territory. That is bearing. down on underlying inflation and bearing down on a few of the. dynamism in costs, he said. The MSCI All-World index was last down 0.2%. Stocks in Europe also took a breather, pushing the STOXX 600. lower for the first time in 4 days, down 0.5%. U.S. stock futures, the S&P 500 e-minis, were down. 0.2%, recommending a modest decrease at the open on Wall Street. Indian equity markets saw volatile trade, as. vote-counting suggested Modi's celebration would secure a bulk,. however one smaller sized than exit surveys had actually suggested. A Modi victory had been expected to be positive for the. country's financial markets, according to analysts, on the hope. India will undertake additional financial reform. The decreased possibility of Modi's alliance winning an. frustrating bulk rattled financiers. The Cool index dropped as much as 8.5% before. recovering a few of those losses, while BSE index. dropped was down 5%. Both indexes had actually touched all-time highs on. Monday. TASKS, TASKS, TASKS This week brings a multitude of major data. The strength of the. U.S. labour market will be closely enjoyed in the brand-new couple of days. with the Task Openings and Labor Turnover Study (JOLTS) due to. be published later on Tuesday. Non-farm payroll figures for May. are out on Friday. We're anticipating a small easing in need for labour in the. U.S. market, said Raisah Rasid, JPMorgan Possession Management's. international market strategist. What does that mean for the Fed? I think all information points to. one rates of interest cut later on in the year, possibly in. December. If the data moves quicker than anticipated that cut could. be moved forward to September. On Monday, U.S. Treasury yields fell to the most affordable point in. two weeks, after the nation's production activity slipped. for the 2nd successive month in May. The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes. fell 2 basis points to 4.381%, while the two-year yield. , which increases with traders' expectations of greater Fed. fund rates, fell 1 bps to 4.8058%. The sharper move at the long-end is an indication that weaker. producing information is not likely to shift the dial on Fed rate. cuts near term, however is possibly a signal of the marketplace's view of. neutral rates of interest as US financial exceptionalism fades,. Westpac financial expert Jameson Coombs stated in a note on Tuesday. In Europe, investors expect the European Central Bank on. Thursday to cut the benchmark rate by 25 basis indicate 3.75%. The dollar fell 0.4% versus the yen to 155.39,. around its lowest for two weeks and almost 3% below late. April's multi-year high at 160.03. The euro was down 0.2% on the day at $1.0881, having. gained 0.65% in a month, while the dollar index, which. tracks the greenback versus a basket of currencies of other. significant trading partners, held around 104. U.S. crude fell 1.8% to $72.88 a barrel. Brent crude. fell 1.6% to $77.10. Both benchmarks struck four-month lows. on Monday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting. Nations and allies, together referred to as OPEC+, consented to start. relaxing some production cuts from October. Gold was somewhat lower, falling 0.6% to $2,335 an ounce.
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Gold wanders lower as financiers focus on US tasks information
Gold fell on Tuesday after increasing 1% in the previous session as financiers waited for U.S. jobs data due later in the week for further ideas on the health of the labour market and if it will deter the Federal Reserve from cutting rates in September. Spot gold was down 0.5% at $2,335.97 per ounce, as of 0826 GMT. Rates touched their lowest level in almost a month on Monday before settling 1% higher. U.S. gold futures were down 0.6% at $2,355.50. ADP employment report is due on Wednesday before Friday's. non-farm payrolls data. If the payrolls data comes above 200,000, which is kind of. very rosy, then gold costs may slide more and even break. that $2,320 assistance level, stated Kelvin Wong, a senior market. expert for Asia Pacific at OANDA. We do see technical aspects that are still positive at. least in the near term since it's still being supported at the. $ 2,320 assistance level, with the other day's bounce enhanced by. weaker-than-expected production numbers, which likewise triggered. the yields to fall. Meanwhile, in significant gold customer India, share markets sold. off sharply after early vote counting revealed Prime Minister. Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- led alliance was. not headed for a landslide win as predicted. Right before the election results are out or throughout the. election duration, need for gold will be subdued due to the fact that of the. restriction on money transactions, said ANZ commodity strategist. Soni Kumari. So once the election is over, we can anticipate some kind. of pent-up demand since the wedding season is still not yet. over, Kumari said, adding that if equities continue to crash,. there will be some funds entering into gold too. Among other rare-earth elements, area silver fell. 2.5% to $30.01 per ounce, platinum was down 0.4% at. $ 1,008.00 and palladium lost 0.3% to $915.00. The Modi federal government is focusing more on commercial. growth like solar (tasks). As industrial need is improving,. silver must benefit, said Ajay Kedia, director at Kedia. Commodities, Mumbai.
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European power rates drop as German wind volumes seen trebling
European timely power rates fell sharply on Tuesday, weighed down by forecasts for more than tripling of German wind power output and small wind output gains in France, while need was set to increase only a little. LSEG expert Marcus Eriksson likewise noted enhanced thermal accessibility in the area. German baseload power for Wednesday dropped 28.1%. to 82.5 euros ($ 89.83) per megawatt hour (MWh) by 0820 GMT. The. equivalent French contract was at 41.0 euros/MWh, down. 3.5%. German wind power output was expected to reach 15.6. gigawatts (GW) on Wednesday, compared to 5 GW on Tuesday,. while France needs to include 500 MW to reach 2.3 GW, LSEG data. showed. French nuclear schedule remained at 68% of capacity. Power intake in Germany was predicted steady at 55.4 GW. day-on-day while that in France was anticipated to include 400 MW to. hit 43.3 GW in the very same duration. Along the curve, German year-ahead power was 1.4%. off at 97.4 euros/MWh while the agreement's French equivalent. lost 3.9% at 80.8 euros/MWh. Both positions had actually posted gains in the previous session,. driven by the associated gas market, which is confronted with an. interruption in Norway and competitors for LNG, however gas and oil. standards were lower again on Tuesday. European CO2 allowances for December 2024 were. down 1.2% at 73.7 euros per metric load. Parts of river Rhine in south Germany stayed closed to. freight shipping after heavy rain increased its water levels. The EEX bourse's offer to obtain rival Nasdaq's European. power trading and clearing company, whose platforms are. significant in the Nordics, runs the risk of a major examination by. EU antitrust regulators unless moms and dad Deutsche Boerse intensifies. treatments to deal with competitors issues, sources stated. Paris-based EPEX SPOT traded 27.3% more volume in May than a. year back at 71.1 TWh on its intraday and day-ahead markets, it. reported.
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Turkey, Azerbaijan consent to extend gas agreement until 2030
Turkey and Azerbaijan have actually agreed to extend their natural gas supply agreement, due to end at the end of this year, till 2030, and to provide Turkmen gas to Turkey, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Tuesday. The extended Azerbaijan-Turkey gas deal covers the delivery of 3.5 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas per year to Turkey until 2030, a SOCAR official told in Baku. In addition to the accord in between Turkey's state gas grid operator BOTAS and the Azeri gas supply business, 4 contracts were signed between BOTAS and Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR for the shipment and exchange of gas. The contracts were signed at Baku Energy Week, Bayraktar's. ministry stated in a statement. With the 4 arrangements signed in between BOTAS and SOCAR,. Azerbaijani gas will be transferred to Europe and Nakhchivan by means of. Turkey, and Turkmenistan gas will be delivered to our country,. Bayraktar said. No details on import amounts and prices was. supplied. Under the 2021 contract between Turkey and Azerbaijan,. Turkey accepted acquire 11 billion cubic metres of gas from. Azerbaijan by the end of 2024. Under a separate gas supply arrangement, Turkey receives 6. billion cubic metres of gas annually from Azerbaijan through the. TANAP pipeline.
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Severstal eyes investment to increase revenues, Russian market share
Russian steelmaker Severstal plans largescale investment to attain yearly core incomes growth of 10% to reach 412 billion roubles ($ 4.63. billion) in 2028, it said on Tuesday. Controlled by billionaire Alexey Mordashov, Severstal. straightened to focus locally after falling under Western. sanctions in action to Russia's actions in Ukraine. It intends to. attain a 20% share in key Russian market segments by 2028. Investments will peak at around 170 billion roubles in 2025,. Severstal approximated, compared to 119 billion roubles this year. In 2023 Severstal published a 22% increase in earnings before. interest, tax, devaluation and amortisation (EBITDA) to 262.2. billion roubles. It is aiming to increase that by 150 billion roubles by. end-2028 driven by financial investments in its item range, quality. improvement, sales development, cost decrease jobs and IT. advancement. Despite extraordinary difficulties, Severstal has managed to. remain a worldwide leader in terms of performance thanks to the. right method, CEO Alexander Shevelev said in a statement. The planned rate of EBITDA development will lay the foundation. for outshining rivals, he stated. Severstal, which will preserve its present dividend policy. and net debt to EBITDA level for the five-year duration, anticipates. the Russian steel market to grow by 1-2% a year until 2029. In a discussion, Severstal projected that it would. boost cast iron production by 0.4 million metric loads to 11.7. million by 2028 from 2023 levels and steel output by 0.5 million. heaps to 11.8 million. Sales of steel products are seen growing by 2.6 million lots. to 13.3 million.
INSIGHT-Losing hope of rescue, some European solar firms head to United States
European governments due to relocate to support their solar power makers today will be too late to stop solar panel maker Meyer Hamburger leaving a German factory to send out production to the United States.
The plant in Freiberg in eastern Germany closed in mid-March with the loss of 500 jobs, as the Swiss-listed company joined a. growing list of European renewable resource production. factories closing down or moving. In the previous year, at least 10. have stated they remain in financial problems.
On a recent check out to the site, giant white robotic arms hung. dormant over empty wooden pallets as employees prepared the last. assembly line for shutdown. Talks with the German federal. government to attempt to secure a future for the factory ended. without success in late March, a business spokesperson told. .
Germany's economy ministry stated it knew the extremely. serious circumstance of German companies and has actually been analyzing. funding choices with the market for over a year. It agreed to. offer Meyer Hamburger an export credit guarantee for equipment. produced in Germany to be utilized at the U.S. factories, which will. assist a website nearby but won't save the Freiberg one.
The closure, which in one sweep minimized European photovoltaic panel. production by 10%, comes regardless of a boom in wind and solar power. in Europe. Additions to renewable energy capacity, consisting of. photovoltaic panels, are running at record rate, according to information from. the International Energy Firm.
But Europe-based producers that supply those panels are. being squashed by competition from China and the U.S., whose. governments provide more assistance to their manufacturers.
The circumstance postures a predicament for European federal governments. keen to combat environment modification: Either offer more assistance to. ensure local production can stay competitive, or enable the. unfettered circulation of imports to maintain the rate of setups. A conference in Brussels between European energy ministers on. Monday will make a gesture of support for the struggling. market.
China is broadening solar output and now accounts for 80% of. the world's solar manufacturing capability. The cost of producing. panels there is around 12 cents per watt of energy produced,. compared with 22 cents in Europe, according to research study company. Wood Mackenzie.
U.S. aids revealed as part of the 2022 Inflation. Decrease Act enable some renewable energy producers and. job designers to claim tax credits, which are bring in. businesses from within the European Union and beyond.
Meyer Burger says its plans include a photovoltaic panel factory in. Arizona and a solar battery factory in Colorado.
We made a vibrant relocation in the lack of any market policy. support in Europe and shifted a solar battery growth project. from Germany to the U.S., its president Gunter Erfurt. told in an interview.
Likewise, battery business Freyr which runs mostly in. Norway, has actually quit working at a half-finished plant near the. Arctic Circle and is focusing on prepare for a plant in the U.S. state of Georgia after Washington announced the policy.
Freyr stated in February it had changed its registration to. the U.S. from Luxembourg.
We did invest quite a bit of time trying to truly make sure. that we weren't devoting an error, stated Birger Steen, chief. executive of Freyr: The company initially looked for assistance from. Norwegian or European federal governments.
We got to the point where we concluded that type of. policy level response was not forthcoming.
Asked to comment, Norway's ministry of trade and market. said that it had introduced an industrial policy framework. targeting energy shift technologies including solar and. batteries, however did not directly attend to questions about. additional financing for the companies in this story.
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At Monday's meeting, the European Commission will launch a. voluntary charter for governments and business to sign in. support of solar factory. Industry association. Solar energy Europe will coordinate business signatories. However the. charter, which says that purchasers of solar panels need to include. some domestic production in what they purchase, is not enforceable,. Solar energy Europe said.
Michael Bloss, EU parliament member for Greens, launched a. petition previously this month requiring action at a European. level to rescue panel makers.
Bloss states he is pushing for the European Commission to set. up a 200 million euro ($ 213 million) fund to buy up unused. European-made solar panels, however Europe has hesitated to. pursue that. The European Commission declined to comment.
We are-- in headings and Sunday speeches-- very much in. favour of producing our own solar industry, however then in action,. nothing occurs, Bloss informed .
The charter will be more like a political declaration. signed by member states, solar companies and the Commission,. it's more long term, it has no instant impact.
In February, European policymakers adopted the Net-Zero. Market Act, a set of procedures consisting of a target to produce. 40% of the region's tidy tech needs by 2030.
The previous month, the EU also authorized nearly $1 billion. of German state help for a Swedish battery. manufacturer, Northvolt, to help it establish a production plant in. Germany after Northvolt threatened to take its company to the. United States. It was the first time the bloc used an. exceptional measure allowing member nations to step in with. help when there's a danger of financial investment leaving Europe.
But aid for ongoing operations has not been upcoming,. amid political difference over just how much public funds ought to go. to having a hard time businesses.
Choices about supporting markets or firms like Meyer. Burger are down to member states, a spokesperson for the. European Commission told . Germany's economy and climate. ministry thinks help to keep an existing business like Meyer. Hamburger would not be legal if there is a lack of market. prospects from the business's perspective, a spokesperson told. .
Prospective clients-- renewable resource installers that. depend heavily on inexpensive Chinese imports-- have likewise pressed back. against any brand-new subsidies for regional panels, arguing such relocations. could harm them by triggering customers to postpone orders as they. await the subsidies to start.
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More than a year's worth of low-price imported panels sit in. European warehouses waiting for setup, according to. consultancy Rystad Energy and photovoltaic panel makers. could. not individually validate that quote.
That backlog could grow as Chinese capability continues to. broaden, Rystad states: If all the plans Chinese companies have. announced proceed, China's industry will have the ability to make twice. as many panels as are anticipated to be set up worldwide in. 2024, said Marius Mordal Bakke, senior analyst at Rystad.
Dresden-based Solarwatt is carrying 6 to 9 months of. stocks, up from around 6 weeks, its chief executive Detlef. Neuhaus told in March.
The company laid off around 10% of its employees last year. and says its regional panel production is running at approximately. one-third of capability.
This industry is so crucial for the future, we can not. permit that we are losing all our skills, stated Neuhaus.
Analysts say it's unclear what support could actually. assistance, since companies like Meyer Burger produce a fraction of the. volumes made by those in China, or prepared in the U.S.
They are tiny, so they will always have problem with volume,. not just to take on Chinese producers but also with U.S. manufacturers, said Eugen Perger, senior analyst at Research study. Partners AG.
And regional clean innovation markets are so worldwide. intertwined it's tough for European manufacturers to envision a. totally independent supply chain.
Norway-based NorSun, which produces solar wafers-- thin. silicon movie utilized in panels-- stated Chinese devices is vital. to both its plant in Norway and a proposed facility in the U.S . The company has halted production at the Norway plant while it. chooses whether to upgrade it.
Most of the devices for either project would need to come. from China. There's essentially no other option, said Carsten. Rohr, primary commercial officer at NorSun.
DEJA VU
Freiberg has been here before. Considering that the 1990s, companies. setting up operations in the area have actually taken advantage of federal. funding programs to restore east Germany and help it close the. gap with western Germany's success.
New markets sprang up, including in solar and. semiconductors. Freiberg took a big hit in the 2010s after. China's solar market increased production and undercut. competitors.
In 2020, the German federal government eliminated a cap on aids. for solar power installations which helped lift demand. In 2021,. the EU's Green Offer signified political support for future. need, and Russia's full intrusion of Ukraine likewise helped solar. release.
Meyer Hamburger, which is headquartered in Gwatt, Switzerland,. only set up production in Freiberg in 2021 as the market. began coming back to life. It refurbished an insolvent solar. business's plant that had stood unused for nearly three years.
For a while it became one of the town's largest employers,. mayor Sven Krueger verified.
This is the second time the German solar industry is at. danger. They stopped working once currently, said apprentice Max Lange, 19,. welcoming coworkers with a silent nod as they cleaned idled. equipment on the factory floor.
If it stops working again, I doubt that I will be able to pursue a. profession in the European solar industry, due to the fact that I do not think it. will come back, he said, wondering aloud if he may instead. find work in the U.S. solar market.