Featured in Keeping your powder dry – 03-2016

The Wild Wild West of US solar

Solar rush: Favorable market conditions are converging on the solar industry in the U.S., prompting investors and developers to loosen the purse strings and dream big as the pioneering spirit of the Wild Wild West shines on America’s PV industry.

Though the U.S. period romantically termed the Wild Wild West took place over a few years in the mid-1870s, lore and its unique mix of wildness, ambition and determination offer a good analogy for the U.S. solar industry. Look at it this way, in the 1870s pioneers, cowboys, politicians and others set forth across the …

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