The
announcement
–
made
on
the
same
day
as
oil
giant
Total
completed
its
$1.3bn
acquisition
of
60%
of
SunPower
–
will
see
about
2%
of
the
solar
company’s
workforce
sent
packing.
Many
module
makers
and
developers
–
and
SunPower
is
both
–
have
been
squeezed
by
Milan’s
recent
decision
to
shift
the
Italian
PV
market
away
from
large-scale
arrays
under
its
new
FIT
regime.
Few
others,
however,
have
pushed
as
fast
and
hard
into
Italy
as
SunPower.
In
recent
years
roughly
one-third
of
its
business
has
come
from
Italy,
where
the…
