Comments on: Meyer Burger pulls plans for silicon cell manufacturing in US https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2024/08/meyer-burger-pulls-plans-for-silicon-cell-manufacturing-in-us/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:56:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Brandon https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2024/08/meyer-burger-pulls-plans-for-silicon-cell-manufacturing-in-us/#comment-146830 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:56:54 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=107139#comment-146830 In reply to Solarman2.

I totally get what you are saying, but this is our government you are talking about. They do not move fast, and they argue more than they create solutions. They get in their own way quite a bit.

That being said, I have been in renewables since 2008 designing thousands of projects. I never once have used Meyer Burger modules. I do not know why, but I just have never seen them be on any project of mine. Of all the hundreds of different manufacturers (I’ve seen many rise and fall), never have I used this brand of mods. So I don’t know if this is all that big of a loss, and maybe they see that they don’t have a big enough market share here in the US to justify the expenditure of cell manufacturing here in America.

]]> By: Solarman2 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2024/08/meyer-burger-pulls-plans-for-silicon-cell-manufacturing-in-us/#comment-146822 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:56:49 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=107139#comment-146822 The U.S. (needs) more in “country” supply chains including raw materials and foundries to have a local supply chain, instead of an international supply chain. Economically ‘viable’ is based on what metrics, is it based on current interest rates, current appetite of VC groups to buy into alternative energy projects or some combination of both. Until a new tariff guidance is published, there will be many sitting on the fence to see what happens next. Another quarter wasted, another ding in the application of the technology to more structures for energy generation, storage and dispatch and another quarter of excuses of “why” things aren’t increasing at least logarithmically moving forward.

“Meyer Burger also announced today it would not scale its Arizona solar panel assembly facility beyond 1.4 GW, but noted the building could support 2 GW or more.”

The tell that Meyer-Burger does not expect the demand when they first moved operations from Germany to the U.S.. This waiting for the ‘vote’ and final tariff guidance documents is throwing the wrench of chaos into the alternative energy project queues and construction queues across the U.S..

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