[RE-wrenches] Evergreen - now what?

[Joel Davidson]

The underlying concern goes beyond US versus foreign made products. We buy 
Japanese and German made products of good quality made by reputable 
companies that we feel will be in business for at least as long as their 
warranties. But even good products and good companies come and go. One of 
the strengths of the Wrenches list is to get help keeping orphan systems 
alive. But guessing which module or inverter company, let alone which model, 
will be around is a crap shoot.

Joel Davidson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Click" <daveclick at fsec.ucf.edu>
To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Evergreen - now what?


> Jeff, off the top of my head- I think the new Schott modules are made in 
> NM, Sharps are at least assembled in TN, and when these get UL listed, 
> they will be made in FL (I think they're made somewhere else in the US 
> until their factory is ready):
> http://www.advancedsolarphotonics.com/
> GE and Unisolar too, right? When the Applied Materials modules take off, I 
> think we'll see a bunch of those modules made in the US as well, though 
> not under the AM brand.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Evergreen - now what?
> From: Jeff Yago <jryago at netscape.com>
> To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
> Date: 2009/11/5 10:00
>
>>
>> We are currently waiting on a stack of Evergreen modules (which are now 
>> very late to ship!) and we were getting ready to order another batch, so 
>> does this mean we should be looking into another supplier? We try very 
>> hard to buy USA products, but that is getting harder and harder to do. 
>> It looks like its now just SolarWorld in California. What other module 
>> manufacturers are still actually making their modules in US and not 
>> importing from China.
>>  Jeff Yago
>> DTI Solar
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