earth2tech.com: When we talked with Mike Gering, CEO of thin-film solar company Global Solar back in January, he said the company would start manufacturing at a plant in Tucson, Arizona, near the end of March. Well, this morning Global Solar put out a press release officially announcing the plant that it hopes will soon start full production and which will also be accompanied by a 750-kilowatt solar system that will help power the plant with renewable energy.

While the company has been making portable thin-film products for the last three years, according to Gering, the Tucson plant will be Global Solar’s first mass manufacturing undertaking and will focus on large field arrays. Another plant, this time in Berlin, is scheduled to open mid-summer. [ read more ]