Expansion Management

What? They Can't Find an American Company to Do This?

July 24, 2010

I rarely express opinions in this blog but I feel the need to do so one this one. The largest publicly owned utility in New Jersey, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) has tapped a China-based company to provide modules for a photovoltaic ...

Adrienne Selko Blog

I rarely express opinions in this blog but I feel the need to do so on this one.

The largest publicly owned utility in New Jersey, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) has tapped a China-based company to provide modules for a photovoltaic project.

ET Solar Group Corp of Nanjing, China will supply 910 KW of 280 Watt modules that will be installed on two rooftops and two carport structures at Camden Street School in Newark, New Jersey, housing approximately nine hundred students.

You mean there aren't any American companies that can provide this type of product to a utility company?

And it's a school project on top of that?

Who is financing this project you might ask? PSE&G. They will also own it and operate it.

The fact that Boonton, New Jersey-based ALM Electric Co. will develop, integrate and install it doesn't mollify me as the manufacturing will be done elsewhere.

How does this promote our national agenda of creating green jobs?

OK, I'm done.

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Senior Editor Adrienne Selko manages IndustryWeek’s Expansion Management, delivering ideas and information about how successful manufacturers leverage location to gain competitive advantage. She explores the strategies behind why companies located their headquarters, research institutes, factories, warehouse and distribution centers and other facilities where they did, and how they benefit from the decision.

Adrienne is also the editorial coordinator of the IndustryWeek Expansion Management Roundtable events, which unites economic development professionals to network and discuss the latest trends in site location.

As well, Adrienne tells the stories of successful companies in the biotechnology and life sciences industries.

In the past, Adrienne has managed IndustryWeek’s award-winning website, overseeing eNewletters, webinars, and contributed content. Before joining the staff, Adrienne was managing editor of corporate publications at a large regional financial institution. She also ran a public relations and marketing company that published a best-selling healthcare book.

Adrienne received a bachelor’s of business administration from the University of Michigan and is especially interested in wellness and natural health.