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by philipkglass 424 days ago
China has accounted for the majority of global solar panel manufacturing for over 10 years now:

https://www.statista.com/chart/1576/chinese-solar-photovolta...

Despite that dominance, prices continue to fall:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

As an addendum, the US also saw a rapid increase in domestic solar panel manufacturing in recent years:

https://seia.org/news/american-solar-panel-manufacturing-cap...

But that was due to government incentives that are now under fire from the Trump administration.