60-MW Manufacturing Plant Bought by Prism Solar

A 6.5 acres manufacturing site in New York state has been purchased by Prism Solar Technologies Inc. The site containg a 93,000 square-foot manufacturing building and is located in Highland, New York. The deal cost US $3.75 million.


Prism Solar Technologies expects the facility to produce 60 megawatts (MW) of solar modules annually for the U.S. market and 1000 MW of HPC film for sale to other solar module manufacturers.

"The new plant contains glass handling and glass cleaning equipment, a compete machine shop, specialty optical equipment, 30,000 square-feet of clean-rooms, a wet lab, facility-wide security and building management systems. Prism intends to create over two hundred jobs in the first few years or operations at the plant and up to 400over five years."

Source: Renewable Energy World