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After eight years, Macro Polo has ceased operations as the Paulson Institute will focus its independent research on supporting its programs as it continues to diversify its scope.

We appreciate the community that has grown around Macro Polo and the fruitful engagement we’ve had with our legion of smart and sharp audience. You’ve pushed us to deliver even more original work and innovative products. Our body of work speaks for itself, and we hope it will have a long shelf life – that was the intent from MP’s inception.

MP’s website is now archived and no new work will be published henceforth on this site. Please visit www.paulsoninstitute.org for future research and policy work on a range of global issues.

Thank you all for the support over the years, it has been a privilege to have had a home at the Paulson Institute and to have built it the way we did.

- Team Macro Polo

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A Chinese Solar Company’s Fleeting Run in the Arizona Sun

This case study focuses primarily on Suntech’s decision to manufacture in the United States, and its subsequent experience opening and then shutting down a facility in Arizona. It provides an analysis of Suntech’s motives for investing in US manufacturing, explains why the venture failed, and suggests some potential lessons that can be drawn from its failure. In addition to available public sources, this reconstruction of Suntech’s story is the result of numerous interviews over a period of several months with former Suntech employees, solar industry association representatives, and state and municipal leaders in Arizona.


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