BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

BP announces that it is not "a company with a longer term strategy and vision."
See http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=3207

Joel Davidson wrote:

> 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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