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#206967 - 09/08/12 12:27 PM How's the solar installs???
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How is the solar market in your areas??
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#207038 - 09/17/12 06:53 AM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: HotLine1]
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John,

Around here in north NJ, they are still going strong. I still get to inspect 1 or 2 every month.

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#207042 - 09/17/12 11:04 AM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: HotLine1]
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Harold:
I have 10 (ten) at one of the industrial parks. They expect to have panels on every building by the end of '13.

Most are under 1 MW range.

Resi is going strong; average five (5) plus each week.

I was/am wondering how the Ecs here are doing!
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#207282 - 10/12/12 06:34 PM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: HotLine1]
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Guess that there are no solar ECs here??

This turned into a John & Harold thread!!
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#207285 - 10/12/12 07:25 PM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: HotLine1]
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There's a small market here for small remote off grid systems. We have cheap hydro electricity. Hard to compete with this
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#207287 - 10/12/12 07:52 PM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: HotLine1]
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Florida slowed way down when the state ran out of rebate money.
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#207294 - 10/14/12 08:58 AM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: gfretwell]
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Thats happening in all the alternative energy industry sad to say
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#207295 - 10/14/12 09:48 AM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: HotLine1]
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The good news is solar PV is getting close to the "buck a watt" price that makes it attractive. The bad news is they don't make it here.
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#207349 - 10/18/12 05:38 PM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: HotLine1]
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Last panels I saw that were Made in the USA was about two years back.
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#207370 - 10/20/12 11:53 PM Re: How's the solar installs??? [Re: HotLine1]
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Has Sharp USA bovine sharp china too?
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