Solar specialists embrace tieups

[Persia]

Grappling with sliding prices and margins, solar specialists, or stand-alone makers of wafers and cells, risk being squeezed out of the market by their fully integrated Chinese rivals who are investing billions of dollars in technology.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/us-solarspecialists-idUSTRE76O0RD20110725

[Doug1029]

Grappling with sliding prices and margins, solar specialists, or stand-alone makers of wafers and cells, risk being squeezed out of the market by their fully integrated Chinese rivals who are investing billions of dollars in technology.

The Chinese see profits in solar technologies. That's pretty good evidence that these technologies will be economically viable in the not-too-distant future. Indeed, many are already profitable.

By 2016, the US will be the world's Number Two economy. It;s things like this that are making the difference.

Doug