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New york state spent 958 6 million to build tesla inc s solar panel factory in south buffalo and buy a big chunk of the equipment inside. Construction of the factory started in 2014 and was completed in 2016 17. Originally a steel manufacturing site the 88 acre property located along the buffalo river was transformed to produce solar panels and solar cells. That s largely because the buffalo billion s main event the 750 million 1 2 million square foot solarcity riverbend solar panel factory in buffalo has been facing some challenges.

Now auditors are saying the building and all that. First several new york state lawmakers called for state and federal officials to scrutinize the finances behind the solarcity project in buffalo. Ramping up production of the solar roof panel would help tesla keep its promise to the state to create 1 460 jobs at the buffalo plant by april 2020. But the california based tesla has vowed to continue production at the facility telling the state.

According to an august 2018 report in the wall street journal tesla is no longer buying all of the solar modules produce there. But the plant had 730 workers in mid april so. Breitbart news reported in november of 2019 that new york state officials had written down more than 1 billion in economic development investments in various tech projects across upstate new york including tesla s buffalo solar panel production factory. The buffalo plant was first announced by governor andrew cuomo d in 2013 as part of efforts to improve state economy with manufacturing facilities developed by the state university of new york s polytechnic institute.

To an outside observer it may have seemed curious that development of a solar panel factory in buffalo was being guided by a state college administrator in albany. Over 600 people work at the factory in buffalo. Tesla secured gigafactory 2 through its acquisition of solarcity in 2016. The factory s original occupant entered into an agreement with the research foundation for the state university of new york.

As solarcity acquired silevo in 2014 and merged into tesla two years later the factory was planned. In 2013 the site of gigafactory 2 was planned as a clean energy business incubation center. Said it would end its production of solar panels at the buffalo plant. Last month panasonic corp.

The factory owned by the state of new york was built on brownfield land remediated from a former steel mill. Panasonic will stop making solar panels at tesla s new york factory as it pulls back from that market in the us the company said wednesday.