Marco: Maybe they did it so people who had modest power requirements could meet their needs with the M51s and mmmmm....RC2000s (is that right folks)? Buying them in sets of four.... This was some of the first technology that worked, and was rather cheaply available at the time. I remember those old acrylic-faced modules well, and shipped quite a few...perhaps hundreds or thousands of them...for the solar company I worked for at the time. SO, IN THEORY, if the later technologies are being dismembered (that's so harsh, how about disassembled?) then those modules will be worth something too. I do not know why ARCO scrapped what they did, but I suspect a corporate perspective was part of the scene. At the time, it did me and my then-customers good. After all, we know what PG & E really stands for. Just my 2 cents worth. Chris Daum Oasis Montana Inc. 406-777-4309 406-777-0830 fax www.oasismontana.com
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Mangelsdorf Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 7:55 PM To: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: [RE-wrenches] ARCO Solar and Carrizo Plain Us old-timers remember the dismemberment of the then big ARCO Solar grid-tie project down in So. CAL. In the 1980s and the parting out of that project in dribs and drabs for years. I was wondering recently with all these ever so big and getting bigger grid-tie projects sprouting like mushrooms across the developed world: why did ARCO Solar and the utility (PG&E?) scrap the whole thing after a relatively short period of time? Causes me to wonder about the fate of so many of the mammoth projects now going in as far as what's going to happen when the owner-investors likely bail, having made their handsome ROIs, after the tax credits and MACRS depreciation plays out. Thanks, marco
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