Solar Demand Increases Internationally; US Next?
Interesting post today from Camille Ricketts at VentureBeat discussing how solar demand in Europe and Asia is on the rise amid falling prices, whereas the US has yet to heat up. The post tosses out some cost per watt statistics from abroad (which may annoy those that would like to see $/kwh or levelized cost of electricity--LCOE--used as the metric), presenting China as the cost leader.
Like I've been hearing from the Intersolar conferences, Ricketts says that popular opinion has the US catching up during the second half of 2009 once cleantech stimulus funds kick in. Regardless, US companies should expect to hear more solar PR noise from global companies through the end of this year and into 2010.
I'll report back and let you know if the discussion is the same at AlwaysOn GoingGreen, Solar Power International and PVSEC.
Tags: $/kwh, alwayson, cleantech+stimulus, goinggreen, lcoe, levelized+cost+of+electricity, pvsec, solar+demand, solar+power+international, solar+pr, venturebeat
Posted by Jason Morris on July 20, 2009 at 11:36 PM
