Silicon Shortage - Finally Ending

Sand Pebbles: Solar Power’s Silicon Dreams in China from the Wall Street Journal.

Keypoints from Dr. Zhengrong Shi:

• New producers of silicon are finally helping put the shortage. The key word used in the quote, is "explosion".
• There used to only be 8 producers of silicon, now there is 100+
• This will have a positive impact starting in 2009.
• Suntech doubled their production to 1 gigawatt in 2008.
• Grid parity should be reached in 3-5 years even without subsidies.