Detailed plans for the factory will be announced on Friday at a meeting with the mayor of the city of Campinas, in the southeastern state of São Paulo, the company's local institutional relations officer Adalberto Maluf, told Recharge.

“Of the 400MW, 10MW will be destined to rooftop solar and 390MW to utilities already contracted,” he said.

The Chinese group is investing R$150m ($50m) through the end of 2015, and BYD expects production of modules with 250kW to 315kW capacity to start in early 2016, ramping up to 400MW capacity within three months.

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