Why SunPower Is Buying SolarWorld USA

The Energy Gang

Wood Mackenzie

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🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

SunPower couldn’t convince the Trump Administration to abandon tariffs on imported solar panels. So now it plans to buy one of the companies pushing tariffs in the first place.

Yesterday, SunPower unveiled plans to acquire SolarWorld’s U.S. operations. Two months ago, CEO Tom Werner said SunPower was going to divest from America. But now he’s buying his way back in.

In this week's episode, we'll explain how Trump's demands for tariffs are shifting the PV manufacturing landscape.

Then, 173 countries agreed to cut emissions from the shipping sector by 2050. What are the technological solutions for a sector that could make up one-fifth of global emissions by the middle of the century?

We'll end with the latest from Germany. Katherine was in the country getting an update on the closely scrutinized energy transition there — and we’ll get her take on where things stand.

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0:50.3	From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, a weekly digest on energy, clean tech and the environment.
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1:05.0	Sun Power couldn't convince the government to abandon Trump's tariffs on imported solar panels,
1:11.0	so it turned around and bought up one of the companies pushing the tariffs in the first place.
1:15.0	The solar trade saga continues.
1:17.0	Yesterday, Sun Power unveiled plans to acquire Solar Worlds U.S. operations.
1:22.0	Two months ago, CEO Tom Werner said Sun Power was going to
1:25.0	divest from America, but now he's buying his way back in. We'll explain how tariffs are shifting
1:30.4	the PV manufacturing landscape.
1:33.0	Then shipping gets a carbon haircut.
1:35.0	173 countries have agreed to cut emissions from the shipping sector by 2050.
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