climateprogress.org - 2/25/2009
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The long-awaited drop in prices for solar photovoltaics (PV) appears to be close at hand. Soaring demand for PV and high prices for silicon have kept PV prices up for the past several years, but had two beneficial impacts:
Producers ramped up polysilicon production
PV companies ...
businessgreen.com - 2/24/2009
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businessgreen.com —
Business Green: The price of solar panels could
fall by as much as 40 per cent by
the end of the year as huge increases in polysilicon supplies lead to a sizable fall in production costs for solar panel manufacturers. That is the view of industry ...
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Solar panel prices to fall by up to 40 per cent by year end
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Solar Panel Prices to Fall by up to 40 Per Cent by Year End
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... and falling margins for some solar companies, but you also have to remember we are in a bear market, so companies are not getting much reward even when they come up with pretty good results.” There were also the first signs that falling polysilicon prices will eventually level off after Chinese polysilicon wafer manufacturer LDK Solar announced it was delaying plans for a new factory until 2010, as a result of plummeting prices . This piece originally appeared on Joe Romm's blog, Climate Progress ...
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