Residential Solar Panel Units
What is the most successful solar company to date?
What type of Solar, (thin film, chrystaline panels, etc) is most likely to emerge for residential use, and what company produces and sells these units presently. (January 2011)
Not a very good question, because most manufacturers are diversified. There are also many successful companies that have emerged that you do not hear about because their technologies are peripheral.
How do you compare Honda, Toshiba and Powerfilm-Solar? They all make panels. It is akin to comparing apples to oranges.
As for the components in the solar control systems- many today were either owned by someone else last year, or were bought out- their product line names remain. A company named Siliconix that started out in 1980 making MOSFET devices- crucial to many of the alternative energy systems today- since that time of 1980, it has been bought and sold by at least a half dozen other companies, and now is a small subsidiary of a company named Vishay, and the name Siliconix now belongs to a chemical company. There has been considerable change of ownerships through buy outs and mergers in just the past 18 months. Yet my electronics catalog no longer fits my PO box, where it did 18 months ago.
And they all have products for sale, many are rebranded with some other company’s name on it. How do you compare it then?
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