Largest Solar Cell Plant to be Built in Bay Area

San Francisco Chronicle – A Palo Alto company will announce today that it will spend about $100 million to build the world’s largest solar cell factory and that it will locate its new plant in the Bay Area.

Martin Roscheisen, chief executive of Nanosolar Inc., said Tuesday that his firm is considering sites in San Jose and San Francisco that would be close to its current pilot plant in Palo Alto, where it uses an unconventional material as the basis for its solar cells. Assuming that it stays on track, by 2007, Nanosolar’s new factory will produce 200 million solar cells a year that will generate more electricity than the output of a plant in Japan run by Sharp, considered today’s world leader in solar power.
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