A lot of press in recent weeks about solar power finally getting price-competitive with fossil fuels. Due to rapidly falling production costs for solar cells. That’s largely due to cheap manufacturing in China. And several news items this week suggest that nation doesn’t just want to supply the renewable energy revolution — China wants to own the clean energy space. That was the message from Beijing last Thursday . When officials announced a massive $361 billion investment program for wind, hydro, solar and nuclear projects across China. Here’s the incredible thing. All of that cash is planned to be spent by 2020 — meaning China is on pace to spend $72 billion yearly on renewables, starting this year. And that’s just the domestic spending. Internationally, China’s buying in renewables projects is ramping up equally fast. That was the finding from a report late last week by the Institute for […]