A Suntech manufacturing line
Last November Chinese solar developer Suntech Power announced it had picked Arizona over Texas to house its first U.S.-based manufacturing plant.
In Texas Austin had been lobbying hard to get the plant. It turns out the town of Goodyear, Ariz., a suburb west of Phoenix, will house the plant and get the coveted tax revenues and the 75 jobs the plant is expected to create, the Chinese company announced yesterday.
The Goodyear plant is expected to have an initial production run of 30 megawatts a year but has the potential to expand to over 120 megawatts.
Manufacturing is slated to begin in September.