They aren't necessarily overpriced, but China has a big trend of government heavily subsidizing it's "strategic" industries, of which solar is one. https://www

They aren't necessarily overpriced, but China has a big trend of government heavily subsidizing it's "strategic" industries, of which solar is one. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-china-is-dominating-the-solar-industry/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-china-is-domi... Of course the point is to put everyone else out of business or crippled so China can reap all the profits. It's a fairly common monopolistic tactic.