Ten years ago, Geof Moser had just graduated from Arizona State University with a master's degree in solar energy - but he didn't have much chance to gain a foothold in his home country. So he went to China.

  “The solar industry is quite small and there is not much work,” he recalls. "Just install some." But the Chinese government has the ambition to expand solar energy, Mosel saw his chance.

     Before co-founding Symtech Solar, a solar panel system using Chinese parts, he spent several years accumulating knowledge about the Chinese solar industry.