New eBook Shows How Solar Manufacturers Can Shorten the Path to Grid Parity

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Camstar Systems, Inc. today announced the release of its latest eBook “Taking the Solar Industry Beyond Grid Parity.”

“To reduce cost per watt and reach grid parity, manufacturers essentially have two choices – make current operations significantly less expensive or bring new, lower cost technologies to market sooner”

Grid parity is the point at which electricity generated from Solar power is equal to grid power. The eBook applies Camstar’s Advancing Product Quality (APQ) model to the Solar industry, and shows how the model enables the achievement of grid parity today. Beyond grid parity, the eBook discusses how the infrastructure creates additional long term value in the areas of global orchestration, greener manufacturing and lifecycle intelligence.

“To reduce cost per watt and reach grid parity, manufacturers essentially have two choices – make current operations significantly less expensive or bring new, lower cost technologies to market sooner,” said Solar industry consultant, Jody Cowan. “The APQ model is revolutionary in that it provides manufacturers with a path for achieving both routes simultaneously.”

“Camstar’s eBook analyzes benchmarks from Solar and High Tech manufacturers that have adopted the APQ model, and conservatively applies them to the factors driving grid parity,” said Karim Lokas, VP of Product Strategy for Camstar. “The analysis shows a shift down in the cost per kWh curve by 13-17%, putting some companies in the grid parity region today, and shortening the time to achieve grid parity for the entire Solar industry.”

Camstar’s eBook, “Taking the Solar Industry Beyond Grid Parity”, is available for download today at www.camstar.com/ebook-solar.

About Camstar Systems, Inc.

Camstar is a leading innovator of software solutions that advance product quality in the manufacturing industry, enabling its customers to deliver the highest quality products on time, the first time, every time. The Camstar Enterprise Platform advances product quality throughout the product lifecycle, from design to planning to supply to manufacturing to customer product experience – all in a closed-loop learning process that allows future products to be designed better and manufacturing processes to be leaner and more efficient.

Camstar is the largest in its market, providing solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management and manufacturing intelligence. For over 20 years, Camstar has served hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, Arcelor, Beijing SE Potevio Mobile Communications, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, CIBA Vision, Emcore, Hitachi, IBM, Kodak, Life Technologies, Luvata, MiaSole, Noven Pharmaceutical, NXP, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, Xilinx, Zeiss, and ZOLL.

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