Marketing Optimism versus Healthy Optimism

Mid-2012, the solar shutdowns and the industry’s painful correction continue. Motech announced that it will shutter US-based polysilicon manufacturer AE Polysilicon, and GE announced that it is stopping construction on its CdTe manufacturing facility in Colorado, citing un-competitively low prices and a return to R&D. In early 2012, CdTe manufacturer Abound made a very similar […]

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Two Closures Illustrate the Need to Chart a New Course for Solar

Thursday’s back-to-back closure announcements came out of Colorado and Germany. The reverberations, though, will be felt heavily in places like Albuquerque, N.M., and Tipton, Ind. That’s where hundreds of manufacturing jobs will be lost, and where hundreds more will never be made. Read More: Two Closures Illustrate the Need to Chart a New Course for […]

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