MEMC sets up module line to feed SunEdison Ontario projects

SunEdison has a 60MW project pipeline in Ontario

Wafer giant MEMC says it will create 400 jobs at a new production line in the Canadian province of Ontario, where it will make PV modules for use by its subsidiary SunEdison.

MEMC did not reveal the production capacity of the facility, which is located on the outskirts of Toronto and owned with Singapore-based manufacturing services provider Flextronics.

Missouri, US-based MEMC says the modules will feed the pipeline of SunEdison, which has been granted more than 60MW of projects under the Ontario Power Authority feed-in tariff (FIT) programme.

MEMC acknowledges that the hiring spree is the “direct result” of Ontario’s 60% domestic-content requirement for equipment used in projects eligible for its FIT.

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