Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon Solar's head of market development in North America, told Recharge recently that the company will launch a new generation of production equipment this year capable of producing modules at $0.70 a watt, though analysts are sceptical. "Obviously there's been a big change in price expectations in the market, so getting to $0.70 has gone from an aspiration to a real imperative," O'Brien says.
Solar division becomes dead weight for Oerlikon
Swiss technology conglomerate Oerlikon is on the mend - with the exception of its solar division, which has gone from being a bright spot in the company's cluster of businesses to a dead weight.
26 August 2010 22:00 GMT
Updated
25 November 2012 13:27 GMT
By