Friday, August 3, 2012

A Glint of Solar Optimism

If you have been tracking solar panel developments, you know that many solar panel manufacturers have been going out of business due to stiff competition and falling prices. That seems very unfortunate, because the World could so benefit from broad solar power expansion.

Well finally a bright note from First Solar of Tempe, AZ. Their profits are up 81% since a year ago. Their secret? - focus on solar power plants, aka solar farms. For full details, see the Bloomberg article posted on Renewable Energy World.

1 comment:

Mike F said...

Here's another solar link to file under the "good news" heading:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-ibm-efficiency-abundant-material-solar.html

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