Solar Photovoltaic Market Stats

 2004/09/17: SolarAccess: U.S. [EIA] Releases Solar Photovoltaic Market Stats

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a report
this month covering U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal
market activity in 2003. While the U.S. solar thermal market was
ho-hum last year, the PV cell and module business was anything but
dull. The second-largest manufacturer of PV cells and modules,
AstroPower, went bankrupt. Other major manufacturers significantly
changed their relative outputs of cells and modules, as well as
entering and leaving major end-use markets. The result was the
first decline in total peak kW production of PV cells and modules
since EIA resumed collecting such data in 1986. Here, in the first
of a two-part series, SolarAccess.com has compiled some key
information from the report summarizing U.S. solar PV market
activities in 2003. The second part of this installment, delving
into solar thermal activities for 2003...
[...]
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyidu58>  

If you want to sidestep the PR, the report is here:
2004/09/: EIA: Solar PV Report
<http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/solarreport/solar.pdf>  


<regards>
-het



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You have the wrong government.

Hope You bring away this gorilla at the next ellection.

Here in Germany booms photovoltaic.


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Roland Mösl
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 wrote:


Good to hear from you here too Roland.


No, we"ve had more or less the right government for more than 200
years but, what about you?


Thanks for your quite appropriate concern but lucky for the
gutless EU we protect we have had and will continue to have the
right administration for the next 4 years


Good to hear that but please  read the entire article of which a
portion reads:

"......shipments of PV cells and modules declined 2.5 percent in
2003 to 109,357 peak kW. Exports dropped sharply 9 percent while
domestic shipments rose 7 percent......"  

Maybe you're buying less from the US?     Your power costs are
double the USA's and all those subsidies will catch up some day
too  

Regards.