Recent news about the third largest solar panel manufacturer in the U.S. moving to China has had government officials and economists worried. After all, President Obama is counting on green jobs to help lead us out of the recession, as well as cut our dependence on foreign oil. Perhaps we can take a page from [...]
Last month, news that the third largest solar manufacturer in the United States was leaving to build solar panels in China was stunning, but was it really all that surprising? Solar growth in China continues to eclipse renewable energy manufacturing here in the USA, despite government incentives to spur green jobs and investment in solar [...]
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Canadian Solar continues its global expansion efforts, announcing this week that it has signed a solar joint venture with Japan’s West Holding. Although it is incorporated in Canada, the company bases its manufacturing operations in China. Canadian Solar’s solar cells and modules are sold worldwide. On the other hand, West Holding distributes residential solar systems [...]
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A manufacturing milestone in the solar industry was reached last week! The publicly-held U.S. company, First Solar Inc., announced that it manufactured and shipped more than 1 gigawatts (GW) of its PV solar modules in 2009. Its the first solar manufacturing company to reach this production volume in a single year. In a short two [...]
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