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China solar companies shun home market in pursuit of margins

Chinese solar panel makers are shunning their overcrowded home market in favor of lucrative exports, a switch that has helped to arrest a two-year slump in margins and push shares to 12-month peaks.Manufacturers such as JA Solar Holdings Co Ltd and ReneSola Ltd , reliant on low-margin Chinese sales after trade wars with the United States and Europe, are pushing into Japan and emerging economies where solar panel demand is rising."Opportunities in China are less attractive than in many other emerging markets," said Daniel Heck, spokesman for Canadian Solar Inc , an Ontario-based company that has most of its operations in China.China plans to add 10 gigawatts (GW) of installed solar power capacity this year. While this would make it the world's biggest solar market, excess panel manufacturing capacity has led to a sharp decline in prices.Data from business information provider IHS show that Chinese-manufactured modules were selling in the domestic market at 57 cents per watt in April, th...

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