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Nobody said it was easy

Solar manufacturing industries have shown similar characteristics across Latin America: low to medium technological level (with very few exceptions), relatively small capacities, high dependence on national policy, limited scope of exports, need for more automation, and lack of vertically integrated manufacturing. Here, pv magazine provides a snapshot of manufacturing across the region’s leading markets.

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Emiliano Bellini

11 Sep 2018

Image: Canadian Solar

Producing solar modules outside of Asia, and particularly outside China, remains a challenge for the brave, as the pressure on prices continues to rise, and the technological level of many Asian pro- ducers has reached previously unthinkable levels. According to Walter Gisler, Director Business Development (LatAm) of the Swiss supplier of production equipment Meyer Burger, …

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