Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Solar Industry

How hot is too hot? First Solar's star status gets another boost - asks what happens if Silicon shortage eases on thin film. What was not mentioned directly is a lot of the solar business is in Europe. This article mentions possible industry consolidation. INTERVIEW-Solar consolidation could happen this year-banker

My favorite Op-Ed writer is back, Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Columnist Dumb as We Wanna Be Great article! Talking about how Europe has built a solar industry and how the US percent of the market has fallen dramatically.

Good quote from the article:
While all the presidential candidates were railing about lost manufacturing jobs in Ohio, no one noticed that America’s premier solar company, First Solar, from Toledo, Ohio, was opening its newest factory in the former East Germany — 540 high-paying engineering jobs — because Germany has created a booming solar market and America has not.

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