On the heels of the Q-Cells, and PowerLight deal, mentioned here, United Press International has an article about the large German solar company presence at Solar Power 2006 in San Jose.
"(German) companies like Q-Cells and Solar World are coming to the U.S. ... they see the U.S. as the next big thing," Rhone Resch, the president of the American Solar Energy Industries Association, told United Press International this week at the Solar Power 2006 conference in San Jose, Calif.
A fairly large German delegation is present at the conference this year -- in addition to Q-Cells and Solar World, SCHOTT and Steca have individual booths, and Aeroline Tube Systems, Baumann GmbH, IMO Antriebseinheit GmbH and Wurth Solar GmbH & Co. KG are represented at a German Pavilion at the confab.
According to Resch, whose organization is one of the conference co-sponsors, the booming solar energy market in Germany will go flat in the coming year, and may even decrease.
Germany and Japan are the world leaders in solar energy.
"The German parliament is decreasing incentives" for homeowners who install photovoltaic panels on their rooftops, Resch said. This is part of the reason he sees the growth there leveling out.
Thus the attention on the United States, a market that Australian solar energy expert Martin A. Green from the University of New South Wales on Wednesday called "a sleeping giant that is waking up."
Read the entire article here. SolarSanDiego.Net applauds the entry of German solar companies into the US as a way to make US companies more competive and lead to quicker breakthroughs in solar technology!
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