[odyd 1,339]

New article https://solarpvinvestor.com/spvi-news/357-chasing-solar-solyndra-lawsuit- Will have a solarzoom report tomorrow, I hope

[Guest solarfun]

Nice article about Solyndra. Is it even possible to file such a suit against government?

[explo 648]

Great article. The fact that the US lsted Chinese companies have American ownership contrary to Solarworld is an important point. What interest do these American shareholders have in seeing their invested share capital being burned to enable dumping prices? The whole question is actually pointless, since DOC did not compare with global marketprices, but a theoretical example of production cost in Thailand.

[odyd 1,339]

Interesting that the government of the country had never considered the conflict of people investing in free enterprise but at the same time limiting or clearly promoting another product against that enterprise. One can always sue, but government has rather unlimited resources to protect themselves. Also in some jurisdictions would be impossible to have such a lawsuit. Since all cells for SunPower come from the Philippines and Malaysia , the US government could not named them as drawing the fee, unless they would name the module being from China. But then the argument of dumping would be almost irrational. Only Chinese would be dumping using a foreign cell but someone else using a foreign cell would not. That would probably draw civil suits.

[odyd 1,339]

New report by solarzoom https://solarpvinvestor.com/spvi-news/358-weekly-solar-market-price-trends-mainland-china-report-11

[Guest solarfun]

Odyd, Do you know by any chance, when will WTO decide on the validity U.S. tariffs? Or at least the details of the case. I know that China launched the complaint, and WTO agreed to probe the tariffs. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-28/wto-to-probe-u-s-anti-subsidy-duties-on-chinese-imports.html But no details, and no news after that.

[odyd 1,339]

Hi there, no idea. Last case brought by China against US sanctions was supported by WTO. Layoffs in Philippines. 900 jobs lost at SunPower's. 550 in Malaysia by First Solar. Tomorrow some better news on SPVI, look for it.

[odyd 1,339]

new article https://solarpvinvestor.com/spvi-news/359-chinas-new-solar-projects-to-offset-potential-eu-obstacles-

[Guest solarfun]

Good stuff, Thanks

[Guest greensolar]

Here is a website to calculate electricity created from solar irradiation in europe.... With the $ now @ $1.31 to €1 and modules selling @ $0.80c/watt whic is €0.61c/watt Now saying that the cheapest solar panels I can buy are Risen @ €0.69c/watt I live in Ireland and electricity cost €0.21/Kw unit Feed in tariff in Ireland is €0.09c Kw/unit a 4Kw system will create 3200Kw per year with this calculator (3200x0.09 = €288 per year) which is over 7% if the installed cost is at €1) http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis/apps3/pvest.php So I envisage a 4Kw system should cost any where from €1-1.20/watt installed with doing some of the work yourself UK have reduced there Tariff to £0.14p/Kw and there unit cost to consumer is £0.16p/Kw and going up 12%. Irradiation is about the same as Ireland. I would like to see some cost analyses of what a unit of electricity will cost to be generated across Europe /USA and rest of the world ... against real cost of electricity. This website will give pricing of Electricity across Europe http://energy.eu/ If I have made any mistakes in my calculations please correct me..... Don't be shy to comment and contribute as I like to see where pricing of solar is compared against other forms of generated electricity.... example €0.63/watt http://www.kerst-energy.de/shop/pv-module/902-pv-module/3288-kerst-energy-ke-240p another example full kit €0.99c/watt http://www.kerst-energy.com/shop/systempakete/910-systempakete/3144-468-kwp-system