The Buffalo News: SolarCity job projection triples to 3,000;
company to
invest $5 billion
Published:
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 02:06
The Buffalo News
SolarCity’s planned factory in South Buffalo – and the 3,000 jobs that come with it – packs a powerful economic punch.
To be built on the former Republic Steel plant site in South Buffalo, the factory is expected to bring more new jobs to the region than the steel maker ever had in its heyday.
With the ability to make enough solar panels to generate more than 1,000 megawatts of electricity, the factory would be the biggest solar panel factory in the Western Hemisphere and one of the biggest in the world. It would be three times bigger than any other solar panel factory in the United States, and could be in open by early 2016, with full production a year later.
And the announcement that the factory would bring 3,000 jobs to the region is the single-biggest employment announcement in the Buffalo Niagara region in decades, topping the 2,500 new jobs that GEICO promised to bring to its Amherst customer service center.
