1366 chief executive Frank van Mierlo: 'We think that we can cut the cost of wafers by a factor of three' Photo: 1366 Technologies

Update: 1366 Technologies confirms New York site for PV wafer factory

1366 Technologies, the solar wafer start-up backed by Hanwha Q Cells, has confirmed the location of its long-planned US factory: upstate New York.

8 October 2015 14:18 GMT Updated 28 September 2016 9:41 GMT

By Karl-Erik Stromsta in New York City

1366, currently based in Bedford, Massachusetts, will by the second quarter of 2016 kick off construction at a wafer plant in Batavia, New York, in the Finger Lakes region.

A spokeswoman emphasised that the factory is a "multi-phase project", with an initial 250MW of production capacity , or 50 furnaces, due online in 2017.

But the factory will be "quickly" ramped to 1GW, and 1366 expects it to reach 3GW and 600 workers within five years, the spokeswoman tells Recharge.

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Update: 1366 Technologies confirms New York site for PV wafer factory