bbcElectronics giant Sharp is ceasing solar panel production at its Wrexham factory with the loss of hundreds of jobs.
Sorry to see the jobs go, but frankly the panels were never really up to scratch.
It does make me wonder a bit what it is about the UK that means that we seem to be incapable of producing consistently high quality solar PV panels at a significant volume.
Sharp should really have been cleaning up in the UK, we'd have loved to have worked with them, but the product just wasn't right for the price, then they withdrew their panels for a few weeks in the summer of 2011.... really bad timing.