GE To Build Nation's Largest Solar Power Manufacturing Plant

Cadmium Telluride thin-film technology drives First Solar's (US company)
world cost leadership. GE is not only taking them on, they are building the
first plant here in North America. If you play high up on the value chain
you can generate great domestic jobs for the future.

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GE To Build Nation's Largest Solar Power PlantManufacturing.Net - April
07, 2011       NEW YORK (AP) -- General Electric says it's going
to build the largest U.S. solar panel factory, part of a $600 million dollar
bet on the future of solar power in the country.The new plant will employ
400 people and produce enough solar panels to power 80,000 homes per year,
GE said Thursday. The company isn't saying where the plant will be located,
but it does say that there are multiple locations being scouted.GE says its
thin film solar panel has been certified as the most energy efficient of its
kind by the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado. The technology for
the panel, called CdTe thin film, lends itself to low-cost, large-scale
manufacturing.GE recently acquired PrimeStar Solar Inc. a maker of thin film
solar panels based in Colorado.
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