A handful of solar panel producers who survived the great offshoring of the 2000s want to bring it all back home
Solar panels should be included in a new EU tariff regime designed to ensure strategic industries remain in European hands, and handful of die-hard domestic producers argue as leader gather in Brussels to discuss “global imbalances”.
Heads of government are due to convene on Thursday for a two-day summit in Brussels, with China very much on the European Council’s mind amid growing pressure from a made-in-Europe coalition built around France and Poland.
Europe’s surviving solar panel producers – at the heart of the last 2010s Brussels-Beijing standoff – are eager to be included.
“Include solar modules and other PV components… within the scope of the sector-wide safeguard approach now taking shape,” reads the letter seen by Euractiv, penned by the European Solar Manufacturing Council and endorsed 16 firms. It was sent to the European Commission on Tuesday.
