<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> This thread is hilarious and tragic. What started a couple days ago as an attempt to desperately find a source for US made modules lead the group to discuss the always American made Evergreen, but mid-thread (yesterday) Evergreen announces that they are moving their assembly to China. So what now Bob-O, Mexico may be better than China, but is China better than China?<br> So what now? I use BP mostly, which always provided American made options, and we would sell those to the Buy-American crowd. However, beginning a couple months back, those American lines began getting 'Made in China' stickers too, (with no notice to us.) One of my customer's was pissed when he saw that sticker after paying extra for American made.<br>
There is Unisolar in the US. Does First Solar manufacture in the US?<br><div> Honestly, I am glad that panel prices have come down so far, sorry if that is making life hard for Evergreen and other manufacturers, but solar should be more affordable. If all the manufactureres move to China, then atleast my competitors can't use American Made as a selling point against me. Now instead, they can remind customers that the BP in BP Solar stands for British Petroleum. "Yes, it is the same company as the oil company."<br></div>Nick Soleil<br>Project Manager<br>Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC<br>PO Box 657<br>Petaluma, CA 94953<br>Cell: 707-321-2937<br>Office: 707-789-9537<br>Fax: 707-769-9037<div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr
size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mark Frye <markf@berkeleysolar.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> jryago@netscape.com; RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, November 5, 2009 7:02:04 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Evergreen - now what?<br></font><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328555614-05112009">Very interesting questions Jeff. What exactly do
we mean when we say "USA products".</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328555614-05112009">I use Sharp exclusively. I believe the
silicon ingots are grown in Russia. They are sliced and doped in China.
But they are assembled into modules in Tennesse.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328555614-05112009">Does this make it a product of the USA? If not, should
I stop using Sharp. But what about all those jobs in
Tennesse?</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328555614-05112009"></span></font> <br><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Arial">Mark Frye</font></span> <br><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Arial">Berkeley Solar Electric Systems</font></span> <br><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Arial">303 Redbud Way</font> <br><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Arial">Nevada City, CA 95959</font></span></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Arial">(530) 401-8024</font></span>
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[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeff
Yago<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 05, 2009 7:00 AM<br><b>To:</b>
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<div><br>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? </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Jeff Yago</div>
<div>DTI SolarNet</div></div><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"></div></div>
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