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What is Effective PV Manufacturing Capacity?

Finlay Colville, July 25, 2013 (SolarBuzz)

“One of the key issues that is still puzzling the PV industry is: what is the real – or effective – capacity today? …Not the nameplate capacity, not the ineffective capacity…Take out the retired and permanently shuttered PV capacity and what is actually left? …There is a growing acceptance now that the term ‘effective capacity’ should be used…[T]he PV industry needs to move away from academic MW additions, and look at what is really out there in fabs and what the real capability of this capacity is…” click here for more

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