隆基绿能大规模扩产 光伏行业竞争加剧******
1月17日晚间，隆基绿能公告，公司与陕西省西咸新区开发建设管理委员会、陕西省西咸新区泾河新城管理委员会签订《投资合作协议》，公司拟在陕西省西咸新区投资建设年产100GW单晶硅片项目及年产50GW单晶电池项目。隆基绿能表示，签订投资协议有利于公司充分发挥技术和产品领先优势，进一步提升产能规模，不断提高市场竞争力。
业内人士表示，近年来光伏行业需求旺盛，并吸引了一些上市公司跨界涌入，在龙头企业大举扩张产能的背景下，光伏产业链将面临洗牌。
密集扩产
作为全球组件出货量最大的公司，隆基绿能近期密集开启扩产。1月10日晚间，隆基绿能宣布，拟将西咸乐叶年产15GW高效单晶电池项目变更为西咸乐叶年产29GW高效单晶电池项目，该项目将导入公司自主研发的HPBC高效电池技术。隆基绿能表示，目前，HPBC电池产品量产光电转换效率超过25%。年产29GW单晶高效电池项目预计2023年9月整体完成竣工验收并全面投产。
2022年12月，隆基绿能公告，拟投资30亿元在安徽省芜湖市建设二期年产15GW单晶组件项目。
据中国证券报记者统计，近一个月来，隆基绿能宣布的扩产项目包括100GW硅片、79GW电池和15GW组件等。
经济性凸显
隆基绿能表示，目前公司单晶电池产能与单晶硅片、组件产能不匹配，一定程度上制约了公司战略目标的实现。
对于隆基绿能的扩产，业内人士表示，显示出公司持续看好光伏市场。值得注意的是，2022年末，硅片价格开启调整。对此，隆基绿能在接受机构调研时表示，随着产业链价格的连续调整，光伏发电系统的经济性凸显，市场需求释放。2022年第四季度，公司硅片和组件出货量均实现环比增长。2023年，公司将进一步提升硅片自用量比例，预计将超过60%。
隆基绿能表示，随着光伏产品价格下行，需求将进一步放量，预计2023年全球光伏市场将延续高增长态势。公司将依托在硅片和组件环节形成的技术优势、成本优势、渠道优势以及良好的履约能力和品牌知名度，深度发掘客户多样化需求，不断推动硅片和组件出货量持续增长。
需求旺盛
2022年以来，光伏行业持续开启扩产潮，头部企业隆基绿能、通威股份、晶澳科技、天合光能等纷纷宣布大规模扩产。同时，火热的市场吸引众多企业跨界涌入光伏领域。
据PV Tech不完全统计，2022年光伏行业新建组件扩产项目规模超400GW。业内人士表示，随着新建项目投产，落后产能将面临淘汰。
中信建投认为，随着上游环节价格下降，组件环节盈利有所恢复。近年来，国内集中式光伏需求被高企的硅料价格压制，随着硅料价格逐步下降，预计2023年国内集中式光伏占比将提升。另外，欧洲、美国等海外市场需求将维持高速增长。
隆基绿能创始人、总裁李振国表示，根据隆基能源研究院的预测，到2030年，全球新增光伏装机量将达到1500GW-2000GW。这一装机规模相当于2021年新增装机量的10倍。
中新网评：美国众议长选举“连续剧”暴露美式民主痼疾******
中新网北京1月9日电(蒋鲤)在15轮投票表决后，美国众议院议长选举这场“连续剧”终于落下帷幕，众议院共和党领袖凯文·麦卡锡最终成功当选第55任美国众议院议长。这是美国国会过去164年来耗时最久的一次议长选举记录，将美国“对抗式民主”的弊端暴露无遗。
资料图：美国众议院共和党领袖麦卡锡。中新社记者 沙晗汀摄
由于两党对立加剧、党派内斗、利益分配不均等因素，众议长选举陷入一场拉锯战。在此次众议长竞选中，美国民主党议员继续抱团，多轮投票中，一票不投麦卡锡，共和党右翼“强硬派”领头的约20人小团体也拒绝投票麦卡锡。
麦卡锡的当选之路一波三折，除了本人的“政治投机派”角色在国会不受欢迎外，与共和党内部政治分歧关系密切。
一方面，共和党党内反对者认为，麦卡锡对民主党态度过于软弱，无力对抗民主党控制的参议院和拜登政府，另一方面，因为共和党的多数优势微弱，党内一些影响力较小的派系的政治力量则被放大，有利于他们巩固自己的选票。
此外，党内反对者也认为，自己的选票没有换取更多利益，希望以此作为筹码换取麦卡锡更大的让步，比如让他们获得众议院重要委员会中的职务。
作为仅次于美国总统、副总统的政坛三号人物，众议院议长通常由众议院多数党领袖担任，选举几乎没有悬念。然而，麦卡锡此次为当选，不得不做出多个关键让步，其中可能包括恢复一项罢黜议长动议机制，使得众议长的权力被削弱，难以掌控众议院。
美国有线电视新闻网CNN称，麦卡锡在这场不合时宜的政治勒索中作出让步，这种绥靖政策只会让极端主义势力更加强大。
这场引发全世界围观的尴尬选举暴露出美国政治存在严重的对立和分化。在权力博弈思维的裹挟下，党派利益凌驾于国家和人民利益之上，美国两党相互拆台，陷入“为反对而反对”的无脑对垒。而即便是一党内，也会因为利益分配问题产生不同的小派系，相互对抗，选票变成了谋利益的工具。
从国会山骚乱到打破记历史记录的15轮众议长选举，“对抗式民主”让美国政治陷入瓶颈，长期对抗势必会让政客们丧失客观公正的判断能力，其政治阶层是否有能力治理国家也会引发质疑。
两党之争和党派内斗进一步放大了美国政治体制弊病，美国所谓的“民主”形象，让全世界大跌眼镜。鼓吹以选民利益为先的美式选举，变成了政客们利益置换的游戏，进一步彰显出美国“民主政治”日渐失能，不断极化的党争已使美国政治制度陷入死循环。
House speaker election reveals deep-rooted problems in U.S. democracy
(ECNS) -- The Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was elected as the 55th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives after 15 ballots. As the most grueling House speaker election in the past 164 years, the election has highlighted the defects of the country’s "confrontational democracy".
The election once reached a stalemate due to intense partisan strife, inner-party struggle among the Republicans, uneven distribution of interests, and more. Democratic Party members forged a close alliance, refusing to vote for McCarthy, while about 20 Republicans also declined to cast ballots for the GOP leader.
Except for his unpopular role as a "political speculator" in Congress, McCarthy’s hard-won election can be attributed to turmoil within the Republican Party.
On the one hand, opponents in the Republican Party believe that the GOP leader's attitude toward the Democrats is too weak to confront the Senate controlled by Democrats and the Biden administration.
On the other hand, the political power of some less influential factions in the Republican Party has been amplified due to the Party’s weak majority advantage in the House of Representatives, which is conducive to consolidating their ticket warehouses.
Meanwhile, these opponents believe that their votes failed to win them more benefits, hoping to use this as a bargaining chip for McCarthy's further concessions, such as getting them positions in important House Committees.
As the third political figure after the President and Vice President of the U.S., the speaker, by tradition, is the head of the majority party in the House of Representatives.
But McCarthy has made many concessions in order to bring the ultra conservatives along, involving what’s known as the “motion to vacate,” a mechanism by which members can force a vote to depose the speaker. The reported concessions will empower individual members at the expense of McCarthy’s sway as speaker.
CNN thought the concessions he made during this unseemly political shakedown would only make the extremist faction more powerful.
This embarrassing election, which has drawn global attention, exposed the serious opposition and polarization in American politics. Both Democrats and Republicans put their interests before that of the country and its people, attacking and opposing each other irrationally.
Besides, different factions arise within a single party and confront each other because of the distribution of interests. Votes have become a tool to win more benefits.
From Capitol riots to the House Speaker election with record-breaking ballots, "confrontational democracy" has become a bottleneck of American politics. Long-term confrontation will surely impede politicians to think objectively and fairly while their capacity of governing the country will also raise doubts among the public.
Both parties’ struggle and infighting among the Republicans have further amplified the defects of the American political system, with its "democratic" image shocking the world.
The U.S.-style election, which advocates putting voters' interests first, has become a game of interest exchange among politicians. In addition, it further demonstrates the malfunction of American "democratic politics" and the constantly polarized party struggle that has trapped the American political system into an infinite cycle.
