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Solar Industry How You Doin?

Posted on September 06, 2008

Investors need some encouragement to put money into solar right now. So at European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference in Spain last week, 715 solar companies tried their best to impress. But solar stock prices still dropped a bit.Basically, with governments, including the US, shifting policies on solar such as incentive programs, the highly likely oversupply of silicon to hit soon, and the growing influence of wind power, solar just isn't doing so hot. Analysts are looking to see a drop from 5-20% in solar panel prices during 2009.Jeff Osborne of Thomas Weisel Parners stated that Suntech, S...

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