BP has big hopes for solar in China
Bloomberg News has a lengthy piece on BP Plc, the world’s third-largest maker of solar cells, and its prediction that the Asian market will expand by 50 per cent annually within a decade because of surging demand in China, South Korean and Japan. China’s solar market is currently 20 megawatts a year, but the country is targeting growth of about 1,000 megawatts a year by 2020.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca