Industry Vets Create Solar Freedom Now Organization With ASES

Img source:ups suppliesRon Kenedi and Barry Cinnamon have partnered with the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) to create Solar Freedom Now (SFN). The organization's goal is to reduce the costs and paperwork associated with installing solar energy systems."Solar systems cost twice as much in the U.S., compared to Germany," notes SFN co-founder Cinnamon, whose previous roles include serving as CEO of Westinghouse Solar.

"This red tape is holding back the industry from creating even more jobs, driving innovation and building true energy security for our nation.""I can tell you from personal experience - as well as 30 years in the solar industry - that we can install safe, code-compliant systems here in the U.S. just as fast as they do in Germany," adds SFN's other co-founder, Kenedi, who has worked in executive roles at LDK Solar and Sharp Solar. "All the extra time, paperwork and inspections simply add to the installed cost of our systems."SFN plans to take a national approach to reducing installation costs. The organization says its first goal is to generate widespread support for eliminating burdensome paperwork and red tape.

Silevo Inc., photovoltaic solar module manufacturer, says it has achieved greater than 21% conversion efficiency for its proprietary Triex solar technology at its high-volume manufacturing facility. The company is transitioning from pilot manufacturing to commercial production.Triex technology is a hybrid product that combines crystalline silicon N-type substrates, thin-film passivation layers and a tunneling oxide layer in a single solar module. Silevo produces two series of Triex modules: the R-Series, for distributed-generation applications, and the U-Series, for large-scale commercial applications. Both have achieved full International Electrotechnical Commission and Underwriters Laboratories certifications, the company adds.Silevo is currently shipping commercially to its first customers and has a customer pipeline of more than 250 MW of agreements in Europe, the U.S. and China.According to the company, its EU ProSun group seeks to promote "fair competition and the sustainable expansion of solar energy in Europe."Chinese manufacturers' practices have already led to the bankruptcies of more than 20 European solar companies this year, according to Milan Nitzchse, president of EU ProSun and head of marketing and communications at SolarWorld.In a statement, Nitzchse explained that Chinese companies have operated at enormous losses, while avoiding bankruptcy due to heavy government subsidization. "If China destroys the EU industry, where labor accounts for less than 10 percent of production costs, then virtually all European manufacturing … jobs are under threat," he warned.Next stepsSolarWorld remains the only public face of EU ProSun so far.

However, the organization represents more than 20 European solar manufacturers whose combined production constitutes more than 25% of the EU's solar manufacturing output, per the European Commission. European companies opposing the trade complaint do not manufacture in greater volumes than do those in favor, the commission adds. These conditions were mandatory in order for the trade probe to open.Both Suntech's Shi and the CASE's Shah, on the other hand, believe that SolarWorld and its unnamed co-filers may have more enemies than friends in Europe."Just as in the trade case, when the U.S. solar industry rallied in opposition to SolarWorld's actions, the majority of EU-based solar companies oppose the imposition of harmful taxes," Shah said in a statement, criticizing the trade complaint as "self-serving."Government figures in both Germany and China have expressed their hopes of seeing trade tensions resolved through talks, rather than tariffs.

Following a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, during which Merkel reportedly urged negotiations between China and Western nations, Shen Danyang, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce, released a statement requesting "dialogue and consultations."The European Commission investigation will nonetheless forge ahead, with a series of questionnaires scheduled to be sent soon to exporters, importers, European manufacturers and other companies.

Like the surveys distributed as part of the DOC probe in the U.S., these questionnaires will seek data on production totals, sales figures and other metrics. Based on examination of the information collected, the commission will rule one of the following three ways, according to its website: It will impose provisional anti-dumping duties (likely for six months), continue the investigation or close the investigation.The announcement of provisional findings will be made no later than June 6, 2013.see more at:best online ups

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