Sunday, May 26, 2013
In the iconic satire Network, Howard Beale, the mad anchorman said: "Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the chairman of the board of the Union Broadcasting Systems and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition, and...
In the volatile photovoltaic industry, there is not a lot of time to pause for reflection - this ain't Walden Pond, after all, for those who know their Thoreau: "Our life is frittered away by detail, simplify, simplify." In this fast moving, detail-strewn...
For years there have been significantly more off-grid (remote) sub-applications than existed for the grid-connected market. The introduction and painfully slow adoption of incentives for grid-connected applications did not change the paradigm. Things...
Ultimately proven to be a year of booming demand for the photovoltaic industry, 2010 also demonstrated the usual incentive anxiety, module price pressures and expectations for continued strong growth, or a sudden crashing decline, or, business as usual....
The un-incentivized future approaches, and it is time to call off the hunt for the next big incentive -- because if the solar industry (all technologies) does not, it is surely doomed. Well, maybe doomed is too harsh, disappointed is better. Along with...
Navigant Consulting's Paula Mints explains several lessons that the PV industry should recall from its past that will shape its future; she also reports on key themes coming out of the EPIA's recent thin-film conference in Munich.
Paula Mints from Navigant Consulting looks at long-term and near-term demand trends, to illustrate what the PV industry needs to develop a sustainable market vs. the perception of being a highly subsidized type of commodity: electricity.
2009 is ending and with it a decade of significant upswings in sales and prices, and swoops downward of sales and prices. A severe raw material shortage constrained supply for at least four years during the strongest burst of demand the PV industry had...
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