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difficulties competing and economies of scale from Oscar de la Rubia,
Institute for Concentration Photovoltaics Systems, Spain, cited in
“CPV’s golden opportunity in the MENA region,” op. cit. note 102.
172 Jennifer Runyon, “Soitec to give up on solar CPV,”
Renewable Energy World, 20 January 2015, http://www.
renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2015/01/soitec-togive-up-on-solar-cpv;
Eric Wesoff, “The zero-billion-dollar CPV
business claims another victim,” Greentech Media, 25 January
2015, https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/French-
CPV-Hopeful-Soitec-Exits-the-Solar-Business; in addition to being
a leader in CPV technology, Soitec was a key provider of dual-axis
tracking systems, and the only non-US tracker supplier, from IHS,
cited in “Global PV tracker market increased by more than 60
percent, reaching 4 GW in 2014,” Sonnenseite, 18 May 2015, http://
www.sonnenseite.com/en/economy/global-pv-tracker-marketincreased-by-more-than-60-percent-reaching-4-gw-in-2014.html.
173 Fraunhofer ISE and NREL, op. cit. note 91, pp. 9, 11; Giles
Parkinson, “Silex shuts down Solar Systems dense array solar
power business,” REnew Economy, 24 September 2016, http://
reneweconomy.com.au/2015/silex-shuts-down-solar-systemsdense-array-solar-power-business-14950.
174 Fraunhofer ISE and NREL, op. cit. note 91; “CPV’s golden
opportunity in the MENA region,” op. cit. note 102; IHS, op.
cit. note 93, pp. 5, 6. New products from, for example, Arzon
Solar, “Arzon Solar introduces the 2.70 kW uModule, the
highest power, highest efficiency PV module in the world,”
press release (Seal Beach, CA: 19 February 2015), http://
www.arzonsolar.com/press-releases/, and from Conor Ryan,
“Heliotrop and Magpower set to form CPV conglomerate,”
PV-Tech, 29 January 2015, http://www.pv-tech.org/news/
heliotrop_and_magpower_set_to_form_cpv_conglomerate.
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