Featured in Latin sunrise – 04-2012

Mexico’s market advances segment by segment

Mexico: PV manufacturers are acknowledging the advantages of Mexico as a manufacturing location. However will a domestic PV market follow suit? pv magazine heads “south of the border” to find out.
By
Charles W. Thurston

The vast potential for Mexico’s solar photovoltaics industry is slowly taking shape, with residential PV system numbers expanding, state-requisitioned power plants multiplying, and PV module makers enhancing their capabilities along the U.S. border. Still, in competition with nationally subsidized coal- and oil-based energy production, solar has not yet found a level playing field, and only …

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