China Energy News has found that 60 Chinese solar manufacturing companies have collectively undertaken refinancing worth $27 billion so far in 2023, double the figure for 2022. However this trend has begun to slow as production capacity grows ever greater and as prices throughout the solar module supply chain fall towards the marginal cost of production, which may be bumped up against sometime next year. It has been remarkable to watch the combination of tens of billions of dollars invested in new production capacity even as the 2021 to 2023 shortages and bottlenecks were totally opened up and prices fell throughout the supply chain. This was partly explained by many of the investments being upgrades to slightly obsolete capacity, but…