Another one of those pointing to the facts that the U.S. started down the road to alternatives some forty years back but allowed the special interests to stop that innovative direction, same ones now still holding the once envied U.S. economic engine and workforce back from what we once had been leading in, while the grossly over compensated business minds here whine about those who once envied but now lead on a host of economic issues!
October 21, 2011 - A trade complaint seeking to protect U.S. solar-panel makers from unfair competition from China may harm other parts of the U.S. solar industry, project developers said.
The complaint filed Oct. 19 by the U.S. unit of Bonn-based SolarWorld AG and six other panel companies asked the government to impose duties on more than $1 billion of Chinese imports.
The action may drive up prices for U.S. companies that purchase solar panels and slow the installation of renewable energy systems, said Arno Harris, chief executive officer of Recurrent Energy, the San Francisco-based project development unit of Sharp Corp. Solyndra LLC, the failed panel company that received a $535 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee, cited cheap Chinese products in its September bankruptcy filing.
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Nor will it help companies build solar projects, said Carlos Domenech, president of SunEdison, the development unit of St. Peters, Missouri-based MEMC Materials Inc.
“I think China is playing a positive role in lowering panel costs for U.S. consumers,” he said yesterday in an interview at the Solar Power International conference in Dallas. “Reducing the cost of panels also helps create green jobs in the U.S.”
The dispute is “a matter of manufacturer versus manufacturer and it’s not the whole industry,” Rhone Resch, chief executive officer of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said in an interview. read more>>>
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