Comments on: Ohio Congressman wants American-made solar panels required under Buy American Act But what is a fully American solar panel? /2022/06/ohio-congressman-wants-american-made-solar-panels-required-under-buy-american-act/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Green Ridge Solar /2022/06/ohio-congressman-wants-american-made-solar-panels-required-under-buy-american-act/#comment-131256 Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:05:46 +0000 /?p=98879#comment-131256 It’s a good effort to bolster American solar manufacturing, though it will be challenging in practices. We use American-made solar panels and would love to source more of our supplies in the USA, but the globalized supply chain will make that challenging moving forward.

]]> By: Solarman /2022/06/ohio-congressman-wants-american-made-solar-panels-required-under-buy-american-act/#comment-131096 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 19:05:09 +0000 /?p=98879#comment-131096 That’s the ‘rub’ isn’t it. Most all of the solar PV panel (manufacturers) in the U.S. right now has a firmly attached Chinese supply chain for silicon wafers, solar PV cells probably right down to the glass and aluminum frames that make up the panels.

Apparently Ryan is a cheerleader for First Solar, he has cut out many of the manufacturing facilities doing business in the U.S. right now which leaves, (First Solar).

First Solar may or may not get their refined materials of Cd and Te from China, but there is no silicon foundry used in the First Solar thin film solar PV panels, First Solar has had a cradle to cradle recycling program in place since 2003 and it just so happens that First Solar is focused on utility scale solar PV farms that use 27 to 32 square foot panels, designed to put out around 225VDC per panel. First Solar has announced that all the panel manufacturing lines (will) be powered with solar PV by 2028. The early push for utility scale solar PV in the desert region in Riverside county, the McCoy solar PV farm is using First Solar series four or five solar PV panels and is rated at 250MWac peak. McCoy has enough real estate available for three more phases and a build out of 1GWpdc on average 6GWh to 10GWh generation a day.

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