Comments on: Solar Bubble to Burst Next Year, Report Says

By: Solar Shakeout Under Way, Serious Oversupply to Come, Report Says « Earth2Tech

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:31:31 +0000

[...] that this will be a dark year for the solar market. Lux Research forecast nearly a year ago that solar supply would exceed demand in 2009. Last fall, the firm reiterated its prediction and said it expected margins to become increasingly [...]

By: Alex Haislip

Alex Haislip — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:15:38 +0000

Gross underestimate of the potential for demand growth here. How could you guess the demand there would be for Prius cars or organic food? These things start rolling and are hard to stop.

Green is going toward the mainstream and picking up additional demand along the way.

By: Mehul Kamdar

Mehul Kamdar — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:50:41 +0000

This analysis does not take a huge potential market in South Asia into account. Every one of the countries in that part of the world faces power cuts of 5 to 12 hours in every 24 hour period and if solar panel manufacturers would get their heads out of the sand and sell their products there, they would find that the demand / supply assessments that the report here talks about, are bunk. The region is home to 1.5 billion people overall, and even if 10% of the population buys these panels instead of the inverters that they use for emergency power supply drawing from the prehistoric grids there, whoever breaks the market would become a billionaire, at the very least.

By: Solar Market to Hit $100B By 2013, But Price Cuts Looming « Earth2Tech

Solar Market to Hit $100B By 2013, But Price Cuts Looming « Earth2Tech — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:46:30 +0000

[...] failing,” writes Ted Sullivan, Senior Analyst at Lux Research. As Lux has put it before, the solar bubble is about to burst and it could take many incumbent solar players down with [...]

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By: eric

eric — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:15:29 +0000

I am not so sure I believe this “over supply” theory. The market for solar will correct and make it much more affordable for residential usage. Especially with solar leasing companies popping everywhere I am not sold. Basic economics tells me that more supply/competition will drive down the price.

By: Trina Solar: Is the Silicon Choke Hold Easing? « Earth2Tech

Trina Solar: Is the Silicon Choke Hold Easing? « Earth2Tech — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:01:22 +0000

[...] to Lux Research, the constraint of polysilicon will start to relax as soon as 2009 and end in 2010. And while that might seem like nothing but a good thing for the solar industry, [...]

By: |.::La Bolla Solare che ci attenderà nel 2009. Le previsioni della Lux Research prospettano per il prossimo anno lo scoppio della prima Bolla Solare: “The End of the Beginning”. Scopriamo come e perché::.|Bolla solare 2009,bolla solare,Bolla energia

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:52:17 +0000

[...] (vedi Motori Stirling), questa bolla può veramente scoppiare. Lo spiega direttamente Ted Sullivan Lux Senior Research Analyst: "Le sovvenzioni dei governi come Giappone, Germania o Spagna, stanno contribuendo a rendere [...]

By: |.::La Bolla Solare che ci attenderà nel 2009. Le previsioni della Lux Research prospettano per il prossimo anno lo scoppio della prima Bolla Solare: “The End of the Beginning”. Scopriamo come e perché::.|Bolla solare 2009,bolla solare,Bolla energia

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:50:41 +0000

By: prophet

prophet — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:08:05 +0000

” the production of some of these technologies like solar panels can be very polluting.” Could be, but measure it in long term results.

By: Jumanji

Jumanji — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:08:11 +0000

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By: Eideard

Eideard — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:32:35 +0000

Someone send me a penny postcard when someone qualified to comment on manufacturing, engineering or science shows up. Marketing and merchandising was my old gig - New World and Asia.

My confidence level in "analysts" or "green-geek-economists" is below ground level.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:42:30 +0000

Actually most “green” power is a lot more expensive than fossil fuels or nuclear energy. And like Al Fin said, the production of some of these technologies like solar panels can be very polluting.

By: Web

Web — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:28:25 +0000

Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.

By: Al Fin

Al Fin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:46:12 +0000

China has invested heavily in the production of solar-grade polysilicon, based upon the recent runup of prices by a factor of between 5 and 10. The new polysilicon plants are polluting China's air, soil, and water in a remarkable way, apparently with government blessing.

When the bubble bursts it will be the peasants whose water, air, and land have been toxified by industrial waste who will be left paying for the sins of their government and corrupt industrialists.

By: Oversupply will plague solar industry through 2010, report says

Oversupply will plague solar industry through 2010, report says — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:03:26 +0000

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