Comments on: Cuba To Help Jamaica Start Solar Panel Factory http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/12/cuba-to-help-jamaica-start-solar-panel-factory/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: sambar http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/12/cuba-to-help-jamaica-start-solar-panel-factory/#comment-171089 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=53815#comment-171089 Actually Cuba is the perfect country to help, as they can do it without the high tech infrastructure, similar to Jamaica. Also, they are assembling solar panels from what are likely Chinese modules, a relatively easy task.

]]> By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/12/cuba-to-help-jamaica-start-solar-panel-factory/#comment-170827 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:15:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=53815#comment-170827 They’re crazy. Relying on Cuba, a country with no track record in any manufacturing industry, let alone a brutally competitive hi-tech one, is guaranteed to fail. The only effect will be to delay the arrival of cheap solar PV, as Cubasolar will need massive protection to survive.

The sensible path is shown by Turkey,a country much more advanced economically than Jamaica: start with assembly operations from imported modules, then try to work back up the supply chain and increase the domestic share of value-added.

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