The short answer to your question is "probably not." Manufacturing solar panels are somewhat of a commodity business. This means that you either need to be able to achieve massive scale to be able to compete on price and/or have some sort of technology that makes your panels better/more efficient/etc than those of your competitors. In addition to that, manufacturing solar panels tends to be a very capital intensive business. If you look at companies that present at TechCrunch and/or DEMO, the majority of these companies tend to be very capital efficient consumer Internet companies. My advise would be to consider other avenues for capital. Good luck.

Permalink | Report