From Semiconductors to Green Power: Borrego CEO Mike Hall (Part 7)

SM: What is your prognosis on solar? Are we going to have grid parity in 2012? MH: I think we will have grid parity on the retail side, the distributed generation side, which is systems on houses and office buildings. I think that people will then challenge the whole premise.

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From Semiconductors to Green Power: Borrego CEO Mike Hall (Part 6)

SM: Will you limit yourselves strictly to project financing? Do you envision a technical leadership role? MH: Our industry is new enough that we absolutely need to stay involved in engineering and evaluating new technologies. We have a technology group that does evaluations and downstream technology development such as balancing systems and racking.

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From Semiconductors to Green Power: Borrego CEO Mike Hall (Part 5)

SM: Is your business entirely residential? MH: No. Now we are entirely the other way. I took over as CEO in January. After the investment came in we restructured the board and the company. We had separated into two divisions in 2007, which provided a nice, clean way of splitting. Accordingly, we sold the residential

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