U.S. Builds Solar Opportunities

摘要

At the Solar Power International show last month in Anaheim, Calif., billed as America's largest solar event, the competitiveness of the U.S. solar industry was a recurring theme. At keynote sessions, panel discussions and individual meetings, speakers not only espoused the strengths of the domestic industry and markets, but urged other industry participants to make themselves heard and take an active role in government policy development.rnIn a speech much like a sermon from a pulpit, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Sola. Energy Industries Association (SEIA, Washington, D.C.), did perhaps the most to try to stir the audience into action, repeatedly eliciting bouts of applause. There are crucial policy battles raging right now in the U.S. Congress, he said, and people throughout the solar industry need to support the efforts by joining SEIA, engaging their policymakers, writing opinion pieces for the local media, and contributing money to the cause. "When itrncomes to engaging in the major policy battles ahead, we face a choice right here, right now," Resch said. "There are two alternatives, and two alone: Go big, or go home."