02-03-2014, 01:34 PM
the chinese dumping settlement and the end of over the top EU subsidies may have had more impact
"In December alone, Germany installed nearly as much solar capacity as the United States has in total, fueled by the subsidies that solar companies admit sometimes made it possible not to worry whether there was sufficient demand in a given area for the power they would produce."
from a 2011 article ....
chinese dumping the panels and the EU doing fiscal stimulus - shrewd buyers could end up with cash to boot - free money always creates a big demand - grin
how does this relate to Hawaii? - .... at that time both the US and the EU held that china was dumping panels - there were tariffs imposed increasing the price per watt to the end user
solar is proven cheap and safe current floor pricing is 0.78 dollar cents per watt ( China had been dumping as low as 0.42 dollar cents per watt) - the floor imposed by treaty - china was accused of producing 20X the annual (world) demand in 2012
If Helco were smart - they'd be selling you (us) the cheap chinese solar panels and providing other services - banking a good start - in house financing ..... but no they would rather give away the pgv farm.... grin
hope that brings us back on topic
"In December alone, Germany installed nearly as much solar capacity as the United States has in total, fueled by the subsidies that solar companies admit sometimes made it possible not to worry whether there was sufficient demand in a given area for the power they would produce."
from a 2011 article ....
chinese dumping the panels and the EU doing fiscal stimulus - shrewd buyers could end up with cash to boot - free money always creates a big demand - grin
how does this relate to Hawaii? - .... at that time both the US and the EU held that china was dumping panels - there were tariffs imposed increasing the price per watt to the end user
solar is proven cheap and safe current floor pricing is 0.78 dollar cents per watt ( China had been dumping as low as 0.42 dollar cents per watt) - the floor imposed by treaty - china was accused of producing 20X the annual (world) demand in 2012
If Helco were smart - they'd be selling you (us) the cheap chinese solar panels and providing other services - banking a good start - in house financing ..... but no they would rather give away the pgv farm.... grin
hope that brings us back on topic