In today's booming photovoltaic industry, a jaw-dropping phenomenon is unfolding in Europe: solar panels, once considered high-tech, are now being used as ordinary fences by Europeans.
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The black fence on the grass in the picture looks quite high-end at first glance, adding a sense of science and technology to this ordinary campus, but it is a bit of a contradiction, take a closer look, isn't this the solar photovoltaic panel that should be placed on the roof, how to turn it into a fence?
But in fact, behind this strange phenomenon, it reflects the profound changes in the photovoltaic industry.
With the gradual increase of human environmental awareness, China's photovoltaic technology has been developed rapidly, manufacturing costs have been reduced, and the price of solar panels has also shown a downward trend. As the world's largest producer of solar panels, China's output and price advantages have been widely recognized by people from all over the world.
When Chinese solar panels in the European market became "cabbage prices", many European families began to use solar panels as fences for their own houses.
We can't help but wonder, why do Europeans do this? Solar panels are an environmentally friendly product, and using them as fences doesn't seem to do their best for the environment.
A large part of the reason for this phenomenon is that solar panels in China are so cheap that the average European household can buy them. No, the fence is supposed to use building materials such as wooden boards, and it is not distressing that solar panels can play this role.
With the maturity of technology, the manufacturing cost of solar panels has declined, making its price far below the average in the world, and it is no longer very competitive to describe it.
Due to the low cost of production, Chinese manufacturers produce solar photovoltaic panels in large quantities and export them to Europe in batches, which directly leads to the decline in product prices. As a result, the price of solar panels in the European market has fallen to one-tenth of what it used to be, causing a boom in European purchases.
But most Europeans don't take into account that the cost of installing a solar power system is too high. In the past, the main reason why residents of European countries did not install solar panels was that the price of solar panels and their power generation systems was too high.
However, the decline in the price of solar panels is not only the largest proportion of labor in the entire installation process, that is, labor costs, after all, it is not practical to rely on the public to install at this stage, and professional skilled workers are also needed, as well as a variety of other miscellaneous expenses, which has also become a new challenge.
At that time, the European enthusiasm for environmental protection also contributed to this situation. In the past, Europeans installed solar panels mainly because they thought they would make a certain contribution to environmental protection. But falling solar panel prices and rising installation costs have discouraged some Europeans.
And the waiting time after the battery panels are connected to the power grid is really a test of the patience of the European people. In order for the EU's power generation facilities to be connected to the grid, they must meet various requirements, otherwise they will not be able to operate smoothly. For a long time, solar and wind energy have been difficult to integrate into the power grid on a large scale.
Many countries in Europe are engaged in new energy projects, and every year there are 10 times more projects that want to be connected to the grid than are actually completed. Many people don't care about it after it is installed, and waiting for the grid connection to really test their patience.
European media also said that China's cheap battery panels made European counterparts unbearable. The European Commission wants to investigate unfair trade practices and wants to help European manufacturers get EU money. In this stigmatizing public opinion environment, some Europeans have boycotted Chinese solar panels, which can be regarded as a way to express their dissatisfaction.
Some netizens wondered, why do we export at such a low price?
Some netizens think that there is really no need to be so cheap, and when the time comes, everyone will oppose it, and the gains outweigh the losses.
It's true that we have worked so hard to invest in labor, technology, and so on, and we don't feel that we are getting the respect we deserve.