Featured in 2017: MENA means solar – 01-2017

Wild West

Though the US 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 US solar industry. Look at it this way, in the 1870s pioneers, cowboys, politicians and others set forth across the continent to establish better lives. They came in search of gold and land. They came prepared and unprepared. Primarily they came with hope.

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pv magazine

06 Feb 2017

From manufacturers to installers, the early industry bootstrapped its way up the energy learning curve to the point it’s at today – it cannot be ignored as a growing part of U.S. electricity supply.The U.S. has been a pioneer in developing incentives and business models for the solar industry. In the 1990s, California, Germany and …

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