Native info outlets are reporting that the zoning board for York County, South Carolina, has reversed its decision to allow Silfab Picture voltaic to find out photograph voltaic cell and panel manufacturing operations in Fort Mill.
Silfab had already chosen a present warehouse off Logistics Lane to outfit with cell and panel assembly manufacturing instruments and was licensed to work inside the “delicate industrial” zone. The York County Board of Zoning Appeals voted to change photograph voltaic manufacturing to solely operational in “heavy industrial” zones.
Silfab Picture voltaic, a Canadian-headquartered silicon photograph voltaic panel producer that operates a producing unit in Burlington, Washington, began looking out for a second U.S. manufacturing location over a 12 months previously, with plans to moreover start photograph voltaic cell manufacturing. Silfab anticipated beginning photograph voltaic cell and panel manufacturing in Fort Mill this 12 months, nevertheless, neighborhood pushback has been strong.
Group members have been concerned that Silfab would use “harmful chemical compounds” to provide photograph voltaic panels that can put shut by schools in peril.
In its plans for the 1-GW factory, Silfab said it’s going to carry 800 new jobs to the realm whereas providing $17 million in property taxes to Fort Mill Schools. The company had moreover begun taking steps in direction of establishing a house present chain, along with getting right into a glass present settlement with shut by SolarCycle in Georgia and signing a memorandum of understanding to purchase silicon wafers from NorSun’s eventual American manufacturing unit.
Silfab has not however stated its subsequent steps.
