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Growing pains & supply chains

Tracker supply chains: Reducing the costs within a far-flung global supply chain is one of the growing pains of the PV tracker industry, and luckily an exercise other industries have helped to streamline.

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Charles W. Thurston

07 Jan 2016

In an April 2014 analysis, the International Photovoltaic Equipment Association (IPVEA, now SolarUnited) and Solar PV Consulting based in Brussels, estimated that the solar PV industry is currently losing up to $500 million per year due to a non-optimized supply chain. “Projected losses can exceed $1 billion by 2018 if nothing is done to improve …

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