A new report from Dow Jones and the solar manufacturing sector indicates that consolidation or mergers, is likely to be the next wave of solar energy.
The lawmakers, already of the difficulty in establishing a balance between the energy independence and the availability of oil, recognize the inevitability of the consolidation of the market if the manufacturing industry solar us is to achieve any type of presence around the world, let alone dominance.
Admittedly, at this stage, the U.S. Solar is not a cost-effective solution for foreign companies. Land and labour are both too expensive, and even American companies are faced with solar obstacles such as efficiency, reliability, speed and transmission, the availability of deployment.
How to make solar effective in a global market may consolidate the small solar startups and energy solar so that, in the very near future, solar manufacturers can offer the kind of workmanship, lifetime warranties and solutions service for solar installations that are currently popular traditional energy industry.
In other words, notes Michael Liebreich of the new energy Finance, if a company like NRG buys 100 megawatts of solar energy, but the certainty that failures will be treated by a team of maintenance experienced rapid and affordable contract maintained and operated by the company for the lifetime of the solar farm. Currently, Liebreich notes, only a few manufacturers of solar cells are at this point, and only a little more he will reach in the coming years.
Phil Schneider of Deloitte Consulting is committed and note that for foreign investment in the United States solar to produce a set of incentives platform must be present, not least those incentives tax Government. But the reliability and ease of maintenance, remain a huge part of the equation.
How confident are foreign investors that the United States are "good ground" for emerging solar? Very confident, if Albuquerque, New-Mexico, Schott Solar manufacturing plant is any indication. This plant, the cost finally more than 500 million dollars, assessed to be ramp up more than a decade to 800,000 square feet and employ 1,500 people.
More recently, leased eSolar technology concentration of solar energy at the Indian company ACME group for a gigawatt of solar energy. But eSolar and first solar are among the leaders in technology of solar energy with First Solar showing signs of the times by recently acquired Turner renewable energy Solar Installer and the purchase of an interest of 10 percent for businesses, install another.
What of all the guys little solar startups? The recession has slowed investment and many are struggling with high, income stocks deflated and a sense that solar has seen and adopted, its peak, at least in America - an impression by the price of natural gas falling (80% since the summer 2008) who created the cheaper, the capacity of manufacturing and manageable (if not delicious) home heating bills.
Global solar energy Index has fallen 60% over the same period, suggesting a correlation that qualifies Liebreich: "solar and wind versus gas.". In the estimation of the Liebreich, solar did and do can compete with oil. But when natural gas prices begin to rise once again, and this will certainly be solar becomes more viable and the field will come of solar mergers and acquisitions, and these can and should be considered as natural to a new market developments becoming solidified.
There are approximately 60 manufacturers of solar panels to the United States large enough for a position on the website of U.S. Energy Information Agency, with another 20 companies vested in peripheral solar parts (batteries, parabolic collectors, etc.). There are an equal number of solar startups too new or acquired in these technologies currently arcane note anywhere.
This is not to say that the most recent technologies are not promising, because they are. But they were not attempted to field and proven sustainable, efficient in the collection of solar energy profitable on a commercial scale - the three trials of solar technology that allow it to survive, and even less to prosper.
In this regard only, the current recession can be a ground of proving for solar, which allowed the winners to advance and losers to return to the drawing board. In all, this is an inevitable shakeout for solar, and perhaps the best team win.
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