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A | A South Korean company has begun production at a huge new solar panel factory in Georgia even as industry leaders say surging Asian imports could dampen efforts to make more solar components in the United States.Qcells, a unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, said Wednesday that it can now turn out enough solar panels to generate 5.1 gigawatts of power yearly at a two-factory complex in the northwest Georgia city of Dalton. That's almost 40% of U.S. solar panel capacity, according to figures from the Solar Energy Industries Association. Qcells' opened its first factory in 2019 and an even larger plant in phases since, what the company describes as the largest solar investment in American history. “It’s another milestone as we as a company really strive to become a global leader and a U.S. leader in solar manufacturing," said Scott Moskowitz, Qcells head of market strategy and public affairs, speaking with The Associated Press after a plant tour Monday.The company says its new plant is the first solar module factory in the U.S. to begin production since passage of President Joe Biden’s signature climate legislation. Qcells' $208 million investment again shows how federal incentives are spurring a nationwide boom in renewable energy and electric vehicles.Industry jitters about a flood of cheap solar panels from overseas show how dependent on federal policy the solar industry remains. That's a threat in part because former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, is hostile to renewable energy.Qcells leaders say the new plant showcases more efficient equipment and processes, part of a much larger investment intended to bring key steps in solar manufacturing to the U.S. A solar panel, or module, is assembled from solar cells most commonly made from wafers cut from ingots of polysilicon. Today, the company's solar cells are imported from Asia. But 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Dalton in Cartersville, Qcells is building a $2.3 billion complex to take polysilicon refined in Washington state and make ingots, wafers and solar cells — in addition to 3.3 gigawatts of solar modules. That plant is scheduled to open in phases starting next year.Currently, no silicon ingots or wafers are made in the U.S. But Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, besides offering a extra tax credit on American-made solar equipment, lets manufacturers earn incentives for every unit of polysilicon they refine and every wafer, cell and module they make. For example, Qcells earns a tax credit of 7 cents per watt for every panel it makes in Dalton, or $34.30 for every 490-watt residential panel made.Even with that boost, solar industry leaders warn, factories will struggle to compete with a new spike in cheap Asian imports. They're again urging federal officials to investigate whether solar panels are being dumped at unfairly low prices. Previous investigations have led to anti-dumping tariffs on panels made in China and Taiwan.U.S. officials shouldn't regard the spike as a normal market fluctuation, said Mike Carr, executive director of the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America Coalition, a group that includes Qcells. He argues Chinese component makers are pushing out cheap modules from southeast Asian factories, tanking panel prices to ensure Chinese dominance and smother U.S. manufacturing.“This is likely to be the No. 1 new energy source in the 21st century," Carr said. "It’s already cheaper than pretty much anything else to install. It is the path to meeting our climate goals. So I think it becomes a real national security kind of concern. The way OPEC is in oil markets, we don’t want to allow China to become that same controller of supply in solar.”Qcells sees current low prices as a “near-term challenge" in achieving economies of scale and serving a long-term market, Moskowitz said. Beyond trade policy, he said, requiring federal agencies to buy American-made products and promoting panels produced with fewer carbon emissions could bolster Qcells.Politics envelops the solar industry. Vice President Kamala Harris visited the plant earlier this year. At the state level, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has wrestled with Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff over political credit for electric vehicle and renewable energy investments flowing to Georgia. “Out of all the places Qcells could have gone, they chose to operate and expand here in Georgia because of our unrivaled assets and the competitive package we put together,” Kemp said in a statement.Ossoff and fellow Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock note they authored the component incentives that benefit Qcells, emphasizing federal policy. “Our state is emerging as the advanced energy capital of the nation, thanks to federal infrastructure and manufacturing policies that are benefiting Georgia more than any other state,” Ossoff said in a statement.Qcells, for its part, praises both state and federal assistance.“To build these markets up and to have them work, you need a whole government approach," Moskowitz said.。
B | Danielle 编译 本周二（4月30日），新西兰薪酬管理局建议在下次大选前，给国会议员们涨薪近3%。
C | 加薪意味着，后排议员的年薪将达到16.8万纽币，内阁部长的年薪将略高于30.4万纽币，而总理的年薪将在第一年涨至48.4万纽币。
D | Advertise with us 根据薪酬管理局的数据，新西兰议员的薪酬水平远远落后于大多数威斯敏斯特式的民主国家，包括人口与新西兰相近的爱尔兰。薪酬管理局主席Geoff Summers昨天说：“即使对比澳大利亚的州议员，大多数人的薪资都比新西兰议员高，除了塔斯马尼亚州。” 他说，在制定新的工资标准时，他们考虑到了生活成本危机，但没有达到“经济困难时期”的门槛。 反对党：优先给工人加薪 据Newshub报道，反对党党魁Chris Hipkins认为，新西兰所有工作的人都应该得到更高的工资。 Hipkins说他已经获得了“不错的收入”，是一名“收入丰厚的新西兰人”。 “重点是其他新西兰人的收入，要确保他们的收入跟上生活成本上涨的步伐，”他说。
E | 政府应该优先考虑工人的收入。“这是一个更大的问题，我们希望每个人的收入都在增加，这样人们就能应付生活成本。但这不是本届政府正在做的事情。” Hipkins担心，政府现在的政策无法增加人们的收入。“我认为，如果政府能够确保新西兰人的涨薪幅度达到国会议员的水平，这对政治家来说就没有什么问题了。
F | ” 总理：不参与决定，加薪将捐赠 总理Christopher Luxon的办公室已经明确表示总理“不想也不需要”加薪，“他会把收到的加薪都捐给慈善机构”。
G | 上个月，Luxon曾表示加薪的决定不在他的掌握之中，“这是独立的薪酬机构的决定，总理和国会议员不参与制定薪酬。
H | ” 相关阅读： 政府机构被要求节支，但公务员的工资增长仍创历史新高 政府节支路漫漫：38个公共服务部门又增加了数千名新员工 为完成节支目标，政府这一部门将裁员384人 政府今年将节省开支大举减税，有多少公务员会被裁？ 政府开始削减经费，这个部门率先裁撤40个职位 在国家党政府上台之前，知道会裁公务员，很多合同工已转为永久员工…… 如果国家党上台，这一政府部门开支可能会被削减30% 机构越来越臃肿？工党执政下，这些部门的公关人员增加了50% 注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。 chineseherald.co.nz All Rights Reserved 版权所有 (责编：丹妮) 来源 - 相关内容 新西兰外长引发国际争端，前总理友情提醒：中国不是威胁 奥克兰一男子通过Facebook找到了窃贼，但警方为何迟迟没有行动？ 新西兰外长阐述奥库斯立场被抗议打断：“如果你想找麻烦，那么你来对地方了” 公务员大削减：新西兰统计局所有员工自愿裁员 绿党议员被投诉恐吓同僚，副总理斥其“失去理智”，应“承担后果” 13岁女孩在公交站被20个孩子殴打，竟然没有一个人伸出援手 入冬了？新西兰今晚迎来初雪 为何新西兰不禁TikTok？因为我们的总理是“TikTok之王”。
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