Saturday, May 25, 2013
You'd think that quarter after quarter of losses for PV industry manufacturers along with a steady march of failures would be enough to shake the industry loose from its addiction to the goal of grid parity. Instead, and despite evidence that the current...
Shocking though it may be, outsourcing is commonplace in the PV industry. Basically, with outsourcing Manufacturer A buys cells or modules from Manufacturer B and both report the outsourced product as in-house production. Outsourcing, which, pardon the...
As the losses add up for leading PV industry manufacturers, and as manufacturing capacities are idled, it is important to remember that the current correction taking place the PV industry could not necessarily have been avoided. But the severity of the...
Regional dominance in the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry has come and gone as have, over the terrestrial PV industry's ~40-year history, positive margins. In fact, positive margins in PV were once as rare as North America's Big Foot (the ape-like Sasquatch...
As the photovoltaic industry enters its post-feed-in-tariff (FiT) phase, it is important to remember that this incentive along with its ensuing profits was a recent phenomenon and was never intended to be unending. The industry and its stakeholders (including...
The solar sector is once again entering a period of increased activity, but not the good kind, as several firms have announced losses and cutbacks, temporary shutdowns, and closing down entirely. As the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry plows through the...
At the turn of the year, photovoltaics manufacturers are faced with difficult choices: continue selling at prices that do not allow for positive margins, or shutter production and wait for the current situation to settle down. With significant inventory...
At the turn of the year, photovoltaics manufacturers are faced with difficult choices: continue selling at prices that do not allow for positive margins, or shutter production and wait for the current situation to settle down. With significant inventory...
While U.S. and Chinese solar firms square off, Navigant Consulting's Paula Mints points to four things that need to happen to get everyone's focus back on the real prize: a level playing field against other energy sources.
Emily Dickinson wrote, "Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate." Just a few short months ago solar was big news globally, sometimes touted as the hope for a planet suffering from climate change, offering an industry filled with shiny new factories,...
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