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First Solar: The Module Recycling Opportunity

Ram Subramanian;

商品編號:9B16M042
出版日期:2016/04/04
再版日期:2016/03/22
商品來源:Ivey
商品主題:General Management/Strategy
商品類型:Case (Field)
涵蓋議題:Sustainability;recycling;life cycle analysis;regulations;opportunity;environment;clean energy;solar energy;power;first mover;utilities
難易度:4 - Undergraduate/MBA
內容長度:13 頁
地域:United States
產業:Administrative; Support; Waste Management and Remediation Services;
事件年度:2014

In 2014, the vice-president and director of recycling at the Arizona-based First Solar, Inc., the world's leading solar energy company, was considering a business plan to convert its solar panel recycling initiative from a cost centre to a profit-making business. Although the company pre-funded the recycling of photovoltaic solar panels by adding the recycling cost to the end-customers’ purchase price, Europe had recently enacted laws requiring that solar modules be recycled after their useful life had ended. First Solar’s vice-president and director of recycling recognized a business opportunity in recycling solar panels but wondered about the timing of entry into this area and the profit potential of such a move. How could they best position First Solar's recycling offering to take advantage of the North American recycling regulations that they believed were imminent but that had not yet transpired?

教學手冊:8B16M042;
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