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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=156585801-01112011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Marco:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=156585801-01112011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Maybe they did it so people who had modest power
requirements could meet their needs with the M51s and mmmmm....RC2000s (is
that right folks)? Buying them in sets of four.... This was some of
the first technology that worked, and was rather cheaply available at the
time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=156585801-01112011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I remember those old acrylic-faced modules well, and
shipped quite a few...perhaps hundreds or thousands of them...for the solar
company I worked for at the time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>SO, IN THEORY, if the later technologies are being
dismembered (that's so harsh, how about disassembled?) then those modules will
be worth something too.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I do not know why ARCO scrapped what they did, but I
suspect a corporate perspective was part of the scene. At the time, it did
me and my then-customers good. After all, we know what PG & E really
stands for.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=156585801-01112011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Just my 2 cents worth.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Chris Daum<BR>Oasis Montana Inc.<BR>406-777-4309<BR>406-777-0830
fax<BR><A href="http://www.oasismontana.com">www.oasismontana.com</A><SPAN
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org
[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Marco
Mangelsdorf<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 31, 2011 7:55 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
'RE-wrenches'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [RE-wrenches] ARCO Solar and Carrizo
Plain<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Us old-timers remember the dismemberment of the then big ARCO
Solar grid-tie project down in So. CAL. In the 1980s and the parting out of that
project in dribs and drabs for years.<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I was wondering recently with all these ever so big and
getting bigger grid-tie projects sprouting like mushrooms across the developed
world: why did ARCO Solar and the utility (PG&E?) scrap the whole thing
after a relatively short period of time? Causes me to wonder about the
fate of so many of the mammoth projects now going in as far as what’s going to
happen when the owner-investors likely bail, having made their handsome ROIs,
after the tax credits and MACRS depreciation plays out.<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>marco<o:p></o:p></P>
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