[Tireings]

Yes but climate change made them so cheap.

Lucky enough for us and everyone else economy of scale kicked in. I'm taking it

[r00fus]

s/climate change/China/

The US bungled its lead in photovoltaics and politics prevented us from catching up - so like most other things, China leads the way, and we benefit.

[Tireings]

Germany actually started the push.

[gamblor956]

China literally just subsidized soar panel manufacturing to the time of several billions of dollars with the express goal of killing manufacturing everywhere else and then raising prices once the competition was gone.