More good news for our local solar company First Solar. The won a contract to build the largest solar-panel factory in France, as reported by Luci Scott in the Arizona Republic. It will be a $130 million power plant that will employ over 300, good paying jobs, when it is completed in 2011.
It would be great to see First Solar do more work here at home. A big factory pumping out solar panels. Solar work is very similar to manufacturing semi-conductors. I meet with some potential clients recently that are Engineers. I was surprised to learn how close solar work was to semi-conductor. We have the infrastructure in Chandler to handle a nice plant. That would create good paying jobs.
Isn’t Arizona the perfect place to not only grab the sun’s energy with all of our sunlight. But also, be a leader in research and development. Then build the factories here, why ship elsewhere. Let’s hope the new tax credit the governor signed into law last weeks expedites this process. Let’s be the world leader in solar energy and stop sending our hard earned money to OPEC! Well we would have to start driving smarter cars too!
Just my opinion…Jeff Cameron
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