Climate Changed
SunPower Set to Create New U.S. Solar Panel Factory, CEO Says
- New plant will be in West, start producing in next 10 months
- Moving ‘in the direction that this administration wants to go’
Photographer: Chip Chipman/Bloomberg
This article is for subscribers only.
President Donald Trump wanted more U.S. solar-power manufacturing jobs when he cracked down on imports -- now he’s getting them.
SunPower Corp. will announce in about three weeks plans for a U.S. plant to make some of the panels it now makes abroad, Chief Executive Officer Tom Werner said Friday in a phone interview. The U.S.-based company currently makes most of its power-generating panels in Asia and Mexico.