Comments on: LG’s advice to U.S. installers as it exits solar panel manufacturing

By: SayNotoChinese

SayNotoChinese — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:07:07 +0000

Can we please bring more emphasis to the destruction that Chinese manufacturers are bringing to the PV solar industry? Poor quality panels at discount prices from shady companies are destroying market share for well engineered products like LG Solar.

By: Charlie Santini

Charlie Santini — Sat, 14 May 2022 20:07:42 +0000

In reply to Derek Girling. so what? those panels aren't available to anyone but SunPower direct clientele, which are subject to the complete system tyranny!

By: EnergyBin

EnergyBin — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:27:26 +0000

According to Finlay Colville, Head of Market Research at Solar Media, who addressed the audience at the Solar Finance and Investment Europe event in London this week, global demand for solar modules is roughly 25-30% higher than supply. Today, we chatted with an EnergyBin member, ATEN Solar, who specializes in surplus liquidations. He advises (as do we) installers to access the secondary solar market as an alternative sourcing solution. For example, on the EnergyBin exchange platform, installers can send RFQs to multiple wholesale suppliers as well as check product availability for Tier 1 brands. As our member pointed out, supply is constantly changing as projects get downsized or cancelled, as companies go out of business, or when property changes ownership, and when companies have unwanted, new, manufacturer-sealed excess material they seek to resell. Keeping tabs on both the primary and secondary markets is an installer’s best practice for sourcing ready-to-ship, affordable modules.

By: Derek Girling

Derek Girling — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 02:49:22 +0000

How about SunPower? LG and Panasonic both failed in trying yo displace SunPower in the high efficiency premium space.

SunPower has a long history of providing the highest quality products supported by the industry’s best warranty.

By: Solarman

Solarman — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:29:19 +0000

“LG cited increased material and logistics costs, as well as severe supply constraints, as the main reasons behind the decision to stop solar panel manufacturing.”

Therein lies a great deal of the problem up front. LG is bowing out of the U.S. manufacturing and Heleine is starting up manufacturing in the U.S., if Heleine doesn’t have a well-formed local silicon and foundry supply chain in place, they may not last long when put up against Chinese solar PV panel manufacturers that have their own supply chain and can manufacture panels cheaper than those made in the USA. I’m not seeing security in any of these startups in the U.S., unless they use solar PV, wind generation and smart energy storage to zero out their electricity costs to make solar PV panels.