BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

I think the people at NREL are right. See the NCPV Hotline 11-28-2002 Special
Edition for the National Center for Photovoltaics' statement concerning the BP
Solar announcement to stop making thin film at
http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv/hotline.html#latest

Also see http://www.ecoworld.org/Home/articles2.cfm?TID=259

I'd like to talk to Sir John Browne, Chairman of BP, about moving the thin film
factory equipment to Los Angeles and letting this Yank give it a try. Anyone
know his direct phone number?

Joel Davidson


Bill Brooks wrote:

> Joel,
>
> "What a wonderful world this could be...." Ironic isn't it. The good news is
> that any money they extorted out of those lawsuits they lost in their a-Si
> manufacturing venture when they couldn't make it work. Maybe that's what
> just desserts are... I guess sueing wasn't the path to big profits.
>
> Bill.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 6:04 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: Re: BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]
>
> Some of you may remember that Solarex sued APS (former owner of the
> Fairfield, CA building that BP now occupies) and sued Siemens Solar and sued
> Utility Power Group (Mike Stern's amorphous PV company) for infringing on an
> old RCA amorphous silicon PV patent that Solarex had licensed. Solarex won
> the law suit, forced those three companies to shut down their aSi operations
> and then started pushing Millennium Modules thanks to the $0.75/W subsidy
> that Virginia gave to them.

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