The first schools in England to install what the government described as “Great British Energy solar panels” bought them from Chinese firms, the BBC has learned.

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    About 10 years ago I worked at a company that had broken ground on a solar factory in the UK. The government cancelled subsidies for solar and they pulled out.

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      Germany was the leading manufacturer of solar panels in the early 2010s. The government pulled subsidies to re-enter nuclear power and killed the entire industry