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JA Photo voltaic, a Beijing-based worldwide producer of photo voltaic cells and modules, has leased greater than three-quarters of one million sq. toes in Phoenix for its first manufacturing facility within the U.S., the Arizona Commerce Authority introduced.
The $60 million facility will produce high-performance photovoltaic merchandise and is predicted to be in operation by the fourth quarter of 2023 and to make use of greater than 600 folks.
The ability reportedly will use extremely automated meeting strains to provide high-efficiency photo voltaic panels (PV modules) for business and residential rooftop purposes, and in addition for utility-scale solar energy crops, with an eventual annual manufacturing capability of two gigawatts. That may make the manufacturing facility the most important manufacturing web site for photo voltaic/PV merchandise in Arizona.
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The Phoenix Enterprise Journal reported that the 763,410-square-foot constructing is a part of GO Industrial’s GO | 99 South campus on the southeast nook of 99th Avenue and Buckeye Street in western Phoenix.
That constructing is the most important of three on the practically 1.3 million-square-foot campus. It options 40-foot clear top, 122 dock-high doorways and 4 grade-level doorways, typical 53- by 56-foot bays, about 157 trailer stalls and 712 parking areas, a 7-inch flooring slab over a 4-inch ABC unreinforced slab, R-30 batt insulation with white scrim and clerestory home windows, in response to a GO Industrial brochure.
Sunny outlook
Arizona has seen substantial investments by renewable power firms over the previous couple of years.
In December 2021, for instance, Meyer Burger Know-how AG leased a 276,000-square-foot constructing at CIM Group’s Goodyear Airport 85 campus, in Goodyear, Ariz. The Swiss firm will use the house for a manufacturing facility for high-performance photo voltaic modules, ultimately ramping as much as manufacture 1.5 gigawatts’ value yearly.
Individually, final August, GO Industrial, in partnership with an actual property fund suggested by Crow Holdings Capital, bought a two-building, 505,692-square-foot logistics campus, 5600 Logistics, in Salt Lake Metropolis.
