Global PV Market Set to Take Off

Manufacturers beware...the channel is your friend. Your shelves will be overflowing with modules soon enough and you better have a way to get them out the door and installed. The fat margins will eventually move to the channel. Word to the wise...be nice to your integrators when you don't have to be (now).

"....but could also lead to grid parity for PV in three to four years"

As much as this would be great, there is no way this will happen. Al Gore's plan has a better chance of occurring.

Investment tax credits and State incentive programs are indeed taken from the tax payers pocket. If the 110th congress was as creative as the sitting Congress of 1862, neither would be necessary.

That Congress passed the Rail Road act and allowed developers to raise money with Government backed bonds. In addition land was deeded to the developers which was used to develop rail beds and rail head towns.

Three years later America had a trans contenental Rail Road, 10 new billionairs, The strongest steel industry in the world and a way to absorb millions of European and Oriental emigrants who would build the most dynamic country state in the world.

50 years later, those same emigrants sent a million American boys along with hundreds of tons of equipment to Europe to put a stop to the First World War.

If America is to be the 21st Century equivelent of the 19th Century America, we need to make renewable energy the keystone of our plan. To do that we need to revise the Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid "new congress in town" with one that understands the urgency of stimulating an industry that could create half a million good jobs while eleminating green house gasses!

Germany has already created 200,000 jobs in this industry. Are we to outsource our renewable industry jobs to Germany, Japan and China?

QED

Better to "stuff your pockets with cash" saving the planet than destroying it.

If government quit subsidizing oil companies, renewable energy could be on a level playing field and not need subsidies either!

Words. Words, words, words. I've got some words for the PV industry. Lets see some action for a change. We have been reading about and hearing all of these types of "promises" for well over 10 years. Its time you people ether poop or get off the pot. Personally, what I want to see is name brand, #1, PV modules on the shelf of my local electrical supply house, selling for less than $3.00 U.S. per watt without having to purchase an entire 18 wheeler load all at one time.
Then theres subsidies, in all of its notorious terms, its money generated by taxpayers. Taking money from taxpayers to maintain the industry of a product, then selling them that product at an exorbitant price, then getting the same government, that has allready doled out subsides to the industry, to offer tax incentives to utlize this product? Haven't we enough of this allready?
What a scam. Theres just no excuse for this action. In my opinion, all CEO's and politcians are highly over rated and over payed "legalized mobsters."
Your saving the planet allright, but only as long as you can keep "stuffing your pockets with cash." Same as allways and allways the same, worlds without end.
Pity about Earth.

Gas price, Job, earth and our future all is actually in those guys' hands

As the oversupply goes, yes, for any fast growing industry some oversupply problem may arise, and this despite the price/Watt expected pressure. The temporary oversupply potential problem will mainly affect the manufacturers of low efficiency/high manufacturing cost solar cells. This will be particularly advantageous to any high efficiency, low cost solar cell business as at that time it may offer a chance for a low cost consolidation, and expansion. The report misses the possibility of large solar PV systems used to produce solar hydrogen (e.g., using water electrolysis for hydrogen production).and starting to compete with grid connected PV systems. This will not only increase the demand for solar PV systems, but lower the PV oversupply problem.