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Originally Posted by accord1999
It's hard to compete against Chinese manufacturing and Alberta's manufacturing isn't really geared for silicon. Even Germany, one of the great manufacturing and research economies in the world couldn't compete and many of its solar producers formed to take advantage of its huge solar subsidies are now dead.
And Silicon Valley isn't making solar panels, at least not there, it's about selling them to utilities and consumers.
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Thanks for your response! I think the investment and development, and then sales and business (after manufacture in China) could be possible though? I don't know - it just seems like energy is our strong suit, but we haven't hopped aboard current trends. If billions in silicon valley are being pumped into it, seems like something Alberta could get into in the long-run.