Key Insights and Cases
LONGi: Facing Strategic Challenges in the Solar PV Sector
LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. Ltd. has long been one of the world’s most valuable renewable energy companies. Their success in lowering the cost of solar module manufacturing led to increased customer demand and their position as the world’s leading PV module manufacturers.
Business school teaching case study: how should solar-panel makers respond to falling prices?
Solar panels have become so cheap so quickly, that they have gone from curiosity to commodity in less than four decades.
ELP Greenport: Scaling Community Solar
What is the future of community solar development projects and what challenges need to be addressed for scalability?
In this case study, MBA students meet Wendy De Wolf, CBS ’18, founder of East Light Partners Greenport Solar, a 5-MW community solar project in Hudson, New York.
Scaling Solar: Four Key Points
As a solar developer, Wendy De Wolf ’18 often has to weigh project costs and benefits verging on the complicated, opaque, and even contradictory. After finishing her undergraduate degree, De Wolf took a job with Energy Management Inc., where she helped build the firm’s solar group with her colleague Jamie Fordyce. In 2016, De Wolf and Fordyce spun out the company’s solar arm to co-found their own solar project development business, East LightPartners (ELP).
Illuminate: Onshoring the US Solar Supply Chain?
Can Illuminate USA use federal tax credits and incentives to manufacture solar panel modules to be competitive in a global market dominated by China?
Illuminate USA, a joint venture between Invenergy and LONGi, is positioned to be one of the largest solar panel manufacturing facilities in the United States.