It's easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system's total cost and performance. For DuPont, its focus is of course on the materials side, from metallization pastes used to form contacts on the solar cell, to backsheet materials that protect the panels themselves.
The Obama Administration's $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program's deployed funds went to relatively low risk power plants that will catapult the U.S. to a leadership role in the utility-scale solar sector. This is hardly the hallmark of a "failed program." The program is akin to Shakespeare's King Henry V, who said as a delinquent Prince: "I'll so offend as to make offense a skill, redeeming time when men think least I will."Matt James – Advisory Board Member
Matt James – Advisory Board Member
Mr. James has 14 years experience in structuring and financing tax incented opportunities for developpers and investors. He is a speaker at tax credit conferences nationwide and has extensive experience with various tax credit programs which include renewable energy, historic tax credits, new market tax credits, and low income housing. He created Greystone Renewable Energy Ventures and Greystone CDE, the New Markets Tax Credit division, and was Managing Director of both. Matt earned his B.A. from American University and Masters of International Business from the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand.
