FUTURE OF SOLAR ENERGY
Future Energy: China leads world in solar power production By Chris Baraniuk These are external links and will open in a new windowSha Image copyright Image caption China may consume more electricity than any other country, but it is also now the world's biggest solar energy producer Ten years ago, Geof Moser had just graduated with a master's degree in solar energy from Arizona State University - but he didn't feel much opportunity lay at his feet in his home country. So he headed for China. "The solar industry was fairly small and there weren't a lot of jobs," he remembers. "Just a few for installation." But the Chinese government had big ambitions to expand solar and Moser saw his chance. He spent some years accumulating knowledge about the Chinese solar industry, before co-founding Symtech Solar, which designs solar panel systems using Chinese parts. Market access The idea is to make it easy for organisations outside ...