According to foreign reports, the U.S. General Electric Company today announced plans to build the nation's largest photovoltaic cells MILL, glue gun photovoltaic solar energy market in order to become the major manufacturers.
General Electric's vice president of the renewable energy sector Abbe Victor Special (VictorAbate), said: "In the past five years, we have been investing heavily in solar energy, solar production scale will be our next move."
glue stick The new mill will employ photovoltaic cells 400 workers and create 600 jobs related. However, the plant's location has not yet decided. It is reported that General Electric in 2013 began to use technology to produce thin film cadmium telluride photovoltaic cell panels, the plant with an annual output of the photovoltaic panels will produce 400 megawatts of electricity.
Reported that General Electric has signed with the customer contracts for the supply of 100 megawatts of electricity, of which 60 MW was signed with NextEra energy.
Abate said that General Electric has completed the film photovoltaic solar cell panels manufacturer PrimeStar acquisition. GE said the State Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the latest study confirms, PrimeStar the production of thin film solar panels solar energy conversion rate reached 12.8%, traditional solar panels are usually 16 to 20% conversion rate.
Abate said GE is expected to set up cost, technology leader, and is expected within 5 years the total size of up to 75GW of the market to maintain the leading position.