Meyer Burger announced on Friday that it would stop producing solar modules in Germany in March and prepare to close the factory in Freiberg, Saxony. Chinese manufacturers are currently flooding the market with cheaper solar modules.
The federal government, especially Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens), had promised to take countermeasures. But the problem is once again that the three coalition partners simply cannot agree on what is best to do. “The train is leaving now’: the traffic light solar dispute becomes the next disaster for Habecking.