Solar Fabrication plants are being made in the USA, and from my understanding, we have higher-tech panels which reach higher levels of efficiency. If the solar manufacturing industry gets a boost in the US, then we can likely make them cheaper too, due to the scaling of mass production.
This is a nice read: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2017/0...
Quote: "The nation is on track to overdeliver on the emissions reduction commitments it put forward under the Paris climate agreement"
And: "Compared with the Chinese coal fleet, even the best U.S. plants are running older, less efficient technologies."
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16271
Cleaner coal plants in China are still dirtier than natural gas plants in the US.
China greenhouse gas emissions per capita are less than half the USA's.[1]
1. https://wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world%E2%80%99...
China has 320 GW of installed hydro power, compared to 80 in the US.
China had 160 GW of installed wind power in 2016, compared to 80 in the US.