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Germany's Solar Power Companies - An industry in the hot seat

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April 11, 2012

Germany's solar power industry is in a crisis, triggered partly by the cancellation of subsidies and partly by a price war with the Chinese competition. Now Q-Cells, once the industry’s flagship, has gone belly up. Is that a sign of worse to come?

We visit the Sovello Company in Bitterfeld and Solarworld in Freiberg. Can the industry survive without subsidies? Report by Marion Hütter.

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