CLIFTON PARK, NY—Fuel-cell manufacturer Plug Power recently cut the ribbon on its new production facility here. The company says it is anticipating increased demand for its high-tech products, which combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, with water and heat as the byproducts.
ROCHESTER, NY—General Electric has decided to keep 90 manufacturing jobs at its assembly plant here. The conglomerate had been planning to shift those jobs to China by June 2018.
BUFFALO—SolarCity is moving into its new factory here. Approximately 20 percent of the factory’s equipment has been delivered, and the factory plans to start making solar panels by next summer.
BUFFALO, NY—SolarCity’s sprawling assembly plant here is nearing completion and will soon begin producing some of the most efficient solar panels available commercially. Capable of making 10,000 solar panels a day, or 1 gigawatt of solar capacity a year, it will be the largest solar manufacturing plant in North America and one of the biggest in the world.
BUFFALO, NY—SolarCity has pledged to hire another 1,500 workers in the next decade at its solar panel manufacturing plant under construction here. That would be on top of the 3,000 the company hopes to hire when the plant begins production.
BUFFALO, NY—SolarCity is looking to hire the first employees for its solar panel assembly plant here. The six job openings include human resources and manufacturing management positions. The facility is expected to be one of the world’s largest solar panel factories when it hits full production in early 2017.
BUFFALO, NY—SolarCity has begun construction of what promises to be the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in the Western Hemisphere. The state is investing $750 million in the project, while SolarCity is investing $5 billion to create a production facility at a former brownfield site where Republic Steel used to operate. The investment will create 5,000 jobs in New York State, 3,000 of which will permanently remain in Buffalo.
