The Anti Private Equity Movement to come in the Solar Industry

Private equity has taken a lot of the spot light the last few years with their major acquisitions of well known companies.  Right now however in the solar industry I think the exact opposite is about to take place.  It is no secret the billions and billions that were poured into the many different infant solar companies, each one with a seemingly better technology than the last.  The perfect storm of the credit crisis and the global plummet in fossil fuel based energy has created the greatest opportunity not for more private equity but for public solar companies to acquire the contracts and technologies of their younger potential rivals.

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