A Cost-competitive Location
An independently conducted feasibility study for the establishment of a Silicon Industrial Cluster, by the Float Glass Consortium (UK), Viridis IQ (Germany) and SiTek Limited (Trinidad), reveals that Trinidad is cost competitive against any global source of glass currently imported into Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States. The study also shows Trinidad and Tobago to be in the top quartile for low cost silicon processing. The cost savings from these contributor plants, which are lucrative investment opportunities individually, combined with the high quality of engineering talent available, will aid in allowing the country to produce low cost and high quality PV panels for the Americas.