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kentauros

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10. Considering that the polysilicon supplyer MEMC

Reply to SamG (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 05:24 PM

Mar 2012

has a plant here that is part of the "chemical" portion of the local petro-chemical complexes, then I'd say they probably get some form of subsidy, too. I can't prove that, but they do rely on the oil companies for some chemicals, and then supply back to them with their byproducts, so perhaps at least the raw materials used in PV manufacture are getting subsidized in some form

http://www.memc.com/index.php?view=Pasadena

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