Past is Prologue: Market Selection Strategy in a New Solar Policy Environment

While 2011 was a boom year for solar installations in key markets like Germany and Italy, 2012 quickly became the year of tempered expectations, as module and balance-of-systems prices crashed, and feed-in tariffs were cut in kind. Moving into 2013, the solar industry finds itself at a pivot point, ...

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