Audio Interview: Solar Leader Expects >80% Market Growth
Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Electronic Media -- Semiconductor International, 7/18/2007
On the eve of SEMICON West, Aaron Hand, executive editor, electronic media, caught up with Rhone Resch, one of the show’s keynoters. Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association (Washington), gave a preview of his Wednesday afternoon presentation, talking about the enormous potential in the photovoltaics industry, and how semiconductor manufacturing companies are just beginning to scratch the surface of the opportunities available to them.
“Where I see the solar industry growing in the next five years and then the next 10 years is a big part of my presentation, and it’s something that I think the industry should look at very, very carefully,” Resch said. “With rapidly escalating energy prices, with increased concern on global warming, and with states really trying to make a push towards energy independence and improving energy security, solar has a foundation of support on the policy side that’s going to result in almost unlimited growth in the United States.”
Listen to the audio interview (Runtime: 8:11)
Read the transcript
