By Mark Jaffe The Denver Post
10/18/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
Even as the solar-cell industry struggles through its first decline in demand in more than a decade, flatbed trucks are hauling about $100 million in equipment to Ascent Solar Technologies Inc.'s new plant in Thornton.
Even as solar-panel prices dropped 40 percent in 2009 to about $2.25 a watt on average, abound Solar Inc.'s Longmont plant is rolling out its first photovoltaic panels. While it may seem the two Colorado companies are sailing into a head wind, they are just ahead of a spate of others. Plans for 15 new domestic solar-panel factories have been announced this year.
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