Featured in Blue-sky thinking – 07-2014

Dark clouds lifting

Equipment suppliers: Several parameters point to a slight improvement in demand for PV equipment, reports Goetz Fischbeck, CEO of Smart Solar Consulting.
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For the past decade PV equipment manufacturers basically experienced only two modes of business environment: exuberant demand or hardly any demand at all.From 2004 to 2008 annual shipments of PV equipment each year doubled the installed base. Then came 2009, the beginning of the crisis for solar PV equipment suppliers, when demand dropped by around …

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