The defendants schemed with each other, raw material suppliers and certain lenders to flood the U.S. market with solar panels at below-cost prices, the Fremont, California-based company said in the complaint.
Critics complain that no one makes anything in Silicon Valley anymore, a two-decade-long gripe that arcs from Apple s decision to shut down its Fremont, California factory in 1992 through Intel s shuttering of its last Silicon Valley chip-fabrication plant in 2009.
There are students like Will Kim from Fremont, California, who launched a nonprofit that gives loans to students from low-income schools who want to start their own business.