Kyocera Solar opens new PV module plant in Tijuana, Mexico

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http://www.pv-tech.org/news/_a/kyocera_solar_opens_new_pv_module_plant_in_tijuana_mexico/

Kyocera Solar opens new PV module plant in Tijuana, Mexico

08 March 2009 | By Tom Cheyney | News > PV Modules

Mexican President Felipe Calderón was among government and company officials on hand Feb. 5 to inaugurate Kyocera Solar's second PV module manufacturing plant in Tijuana, Mexico. The two-story production facility, which connects to the pre-existing Kyocera panel fab, will have a maximum annual output of 750,000 crystalline-silicon modules, equivalent to a nameplate capacity of 150 MW.

President Calderón also announced his intention to implement a large-scale program of renewable energy in Mexico, which will include Mexican-made solar modules such as those produced at Kyocera.

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Steve Hill, president of Kyocera Solar, compared the current economic recession with the downturn of 1973, which had been caused by the world's first energy crisis and global dependence on fossil fuels. That recession ended with at least one favorable development.

"It was in 1973 that Kyocera’s founder, Dr. Kazuo Inamori, began researching solar energy," he said. "Today, solar energy products represent Kyocera's fastest-growing business worldwide."

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[FreakinDJ]

1. We need to tax off shoring more

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. I take it you oppose Japanese companies building factories in Mexico?

http://global.kyocera.com/company/summary/history/until1979.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. Imagine if the USA brought the War-Machine home and put those billions into solar . . .

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and Health-Care

wow