GTM Research and SEIA say U.S. solar market will show solid growth in 2012

Despite the challenges the U.S. solar market is facing with a flood of low-priced PV panels from China and the cloudy outlook for future government, it looks like PV installations will show some good growth this year, according to this report from ...
Sept. 11, 2012

Despite the challenges the U.S. solar market is facing with a flood of low-priced PV panels from China and the cloudy outlook for future government, it looks like PV installations will show some good growth this year, according to this report from Greentech Media’s GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Washington, D.C. GTM Research forecasts that 3.2 GW of PV will be installed in the U.S. this year, representing 71% growth over 2011.

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.