The consolation prize for this area was 100 jobs in Schenectady and Niskayuna that would support the new Colorado plant, which was expected to be up and running this year.

All of that was put temporarily on hold in July 2012 when GE announced the Aurora project would be suspended for at least 18 months after the collapse of domestic solar panel prices.

At the time, GE said it needed to make its panels more efficient and cheaper and that the business and the Colorado plant had to be redesigned to reach
those goals.


Many analysts said that Chinese dumping of solar panels at cut-rate prices in the U.S. had led to a glut and to the crash of domestic solar panel prices.

As part of this week's announcement, GE said it no longer plans to build the Aurora facility. First Solar spokesman Steve Crum said Wednesday his company was not planning to build the facility either. The 100 jobs expected for the Capital Region never materialized.
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/GE-solar-plant-dead-4715627.php

Good.

It's about time they stopped price gouging people for solar power.

My next roof will be over 50% solar panels.

Was this the deal Obama came here over? His pal Jeffery admires the Red Chinese government.
Shouldn't electric cars have solar panels on the roof?

Quoted from Libertarian4life

Good.

It's about time they stopped price gouging people for solar power.

My next roof will be over 50% solar panels.

And in 100 years maybe you'll get back your investment. Have fun paying 10x extra if a leak in your roof happens under one of those panels.

like who didn't see this coming????

Quoted from BuckStrider

And in 100 years maybe you'll get back your investment. Have fun paying 10x extra if a leak in your roof happens under one of those panels.

ROFLMAO.   Some cheerleader is doing a lot of heavy breathing right now

I've always said going green costs too much green

There's a 'green' remodel going on on Garner Avenue right now. To me, it is too much money being put into one house. I would rather make three houses livable for the same amount of dollars, or less.

how many 'going green' companies, who received taxpayer money, went belly up?

Most of them.

"Going green" sounds more like what happens to a dead body after a few weeks at the bottom of a lake or river.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

"Going green" sounds more like what happens to a dead body after a few weeks at the bottom of a lake or river.

So are you "going green" yet, like getting a job and supporting yourself, earning some of that green paper called money?

Betcha' GE still has the federal taxpayer grant money for this non-existent plant generating interest in the GE bank accounts.

Well, there's ANOTHER Metroplex Press Release which never came true. Gillen should publish all of them for a City of Schenectady book of fairy tales.