The US Department of Commerce finds cause to levy new duties on solar products manufactured in China and Taiwan ranging from 26% to 58%. Dumping margins occur when the Department of Commerce find products solar below fair value.
The implementation also reaches further than previous and than anticipated. Products are defined as follows:
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Oh, For God’s Sake, SolarWorld, Shut The Hell Up
When I was growing up, my father taught me two lessons about competition.
Hot spots (pun intended) for solar development head up our solar stories today. U.S. solar footprint news highlights solar progressive states now experiencing battles to curtail solar development. Yesterday we saw headlines pointing to contention in Arizona, today its North Carolina. Out of Florida headlines call attention to the sunshine state’s solar potential and the roadblocks being thrown in the way of massive deployment there. On the technology side, Google is lighting a fire under the inverter market with a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) to collapse the size of a solar inverter. $1 million is the contest prize with the juicier win being a potential alignment with Google’s “Bottom up Grid” project and/or an investment by the internet giant who is carving out a huge piece of the clean energy industry pie. With the recent acquisition of Solectria Renewables by Japanese machinery maker, Yaskawa Electric Corp., Google’s race for innovation puts even more pressure on an already hotly contested inverter market.
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Get the feeling we are “running just as fast as we can, holding onto one another’s hands?” Adrenaline junkies need look no farther than a participatory role in the solar industry for a speed based rush. Agility, quick response time and synchronized team work are necessary arrows in the modern solar company’s quiver, no matter what role the firm plays in the supply chain or calls home on the planet. Evidence of a swiftly changing landscape include today’s look at 2Q 2014 funding, PV supplier manufacturing and the playing field of microgrids and utilities. Need more evidence? Check out Jennifer Runyon’s piece on energy storage. Heady stuff in our fast paced solar race. While Tommy James & The Shondells captured sentiments in 1967 relevant to the solar revolution today, we are certainly not alone anymore.
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