Featured in #EpicFail – 07-2015

The United States of solar

Supply and demand: Is the soaring solar market in the U.S. storing up problems for the future? With demand growing, domestic supply remains stunted, while the forthcoming ITC sunset is driving an installation rush that threatens to overlook the industry’s tangible shortcomings.
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Deploying solar in the U.S. has always required grit, optimism and too often a willingness to lose money.Consider the following: net metering and interconnection rights, crucial to the deployment of distributed generation PV, are always at risk. Negotiations with utilities over power purchase agreement (PPA) rates almost always go in one direction, and that direction …

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