Business Opinion
| 28 March 2012
Roger Little, founder and President of Spire Corporation, has held a bird’s eye view of the solar industry for over 40 years and he continues to exude optimism about the industry he knows so well.
| 03 January 2012
2011 was a year of turmoil in the solar industry and that turmoil, fortunately, was front and centre in the news. The demise of several companies, first Evergreen, then Solyndra, Solon, Solar Millenium , BP Solar… was not good news, but it elevated the discussion of solar energy to front page news, and that in itself is good. The discussion took a few different directions: costs and finance, technological approaches, the trade case against China and viability and sustainability for the future.
| 24 August 2010
First, I must state that I do not fully agree with all the parallels drawn between the silicon solar cell manufacturing industry and the semiconductor or electronics assembly industries. The solar cell manufacturing industry is definitely not a “drop-in” career for semiconductor engineers. The solar industry, however, is following many of the same trends and developments that the two other industries pursued as they matured several years ago.
| 21 April 2010
Some call it a day of “greenwashing,” when nearly every company hawks its wares as “sustainable,” whether they really are or not. For those in the solar industry, there’s no greenwashing about it. Earth Day is, instead, a great day for exposure.
Earth's City Lights
(Image courtesy NASA's Visible Earth)
