Thursday, November 10, 2011

If You Thought Solar Was Expensive Now, Wait Until They Put Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels

Link here.
"If they succeed, prices for solar will go up, demand for solar energy in the United States will go down, and the U.S. solar market will be significantly undermined," said Kevin Lapidus, senior vice president of legal and government affairs for MEMC's solar project development unit, SunEdison, on a conference call on Tuesday.

The impact of the case is already being felt. This week, China's largest solar power plant developer put on holds plans for a power project for California, New Jersey and Texas because of concerns that duties could make the plan too expensive.
I followed solar costs at my previous website but quit when I re-designed this site. At that time solar was about six times more expensive than coal-generated electricity.  One site.

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