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Meyer Burger is already preparing to close its location in Freiberg, Saxony, at the end of April.
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In January, the solar company Meyer Burger sent a call for help to Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck to keep solar module production in Germany.
Now the company is withdrawing.
Munich – Meyer Burger is preparing to close its location in Freiberg, Saxony, at the end of April.
The company announced this on Friday morning.
In mid-January, the Swiss company threatened to close its solar module production in Germany if the federal government did not act quickly.
The company particularly criticizes dumping prices for solar modules from China.
With the factory in Freiberg (Saxony), the company claims to have the largest solar module production facility in Europe.
Still solar production in Germany in five years?
Habeck said “yes”
In January, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck once again spoke out in favor of maintaining solar module production in Germany and Europe.
Then you can have a say in technical development and “in the digital systems that we install in the solar systems,” said the Green politician on January 23rd in Berlin at the
Handelsblatt
energy summit.
“For reasons of resilience, we are well advised to now keep some of the manufacturing knowledge in Germany and Europe.”
Currently 90 percent of solar installations come from China.
Of the remaining ten percent, part comes from Europe and a small part from Germany.
There is discussion about how this can be maintained.
When asked whether there would still be a solar industry in Germany in five years, Habeck answered “yes”.
The solar company Meyer Burger had already threatened to close its solar module production in Germany a week before Habeck's statements and justified this with competition, especially from China.
Habeck then said that his ministry was in intensive, daily contact with Meyer Burger and other solar manufacturers.
With material from dpa