[Greenbuilding] "LIPA contractor BP Solar to shut down" by Mark Harrington (Newsday 12/23/11)

[Carmine Vasile]

"One month after activating the biggest solar-energy project in New York, a $298 million LIPA-funded array at Brookhaven National Laboratory, BP Solar confirmed Thursday it will exit the solar energy business entirely." ..."Cheap solar panels from China have flooded the U.S. market, lowering installation prices and threatening domestic panel makers" --- so BP Solar, a division of BP Petroleum, quit the business instead of offering affordable PV systems needed to make ZERO-Energy Homes? (Quotes from 
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/lipa-contractor-bp-solar-to-shut-down-1.3406956#disqus_thread )   

Happy HolidaysDr. Carmine F. Vasile,gfxtechnology.com  
 		 	   		  
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