Giga New York
Tesla Giga New York (or Gigafactory 2) is a photovoltaic (PV) cell factory leased by Tesla subsidiary SolarCity in Riverbend, Buffalo, New York. The factory, owned by the State of New York, was built on brownfield land remediated from a former steel mill. Construction of the factory, rebranded as RiverBend, started in 2014 and was completed in 2016–17. In 2013, the site of Giga New York was planned as a clean energy business incubation center. As SolarCity acquired Silevo in 2014 and merged into Tesla two years later, the factory was planned. The factory, in a partnership with Panasonic, started limited assembly of photovoltaic modules in 2017 using imported Japanese PV cells. It began commercial production of modules in 2017. In 2018, SolarCity began production of individual solar cells. In late 2019 or early 2020 Tesla began commercial installation of version 3 of its "Solar Roof" product manufactured at the factory.Panasonic stopped manufacturing solar panels at the factory in 2020. The same year, Tesla began producing charging equipment for its Supercharger network at the factory, and its solar deployments grew to 205 megawatts of generating capacity. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employment at the factory decreased in the first half of 2020, but by the end of 2021, the number of employees at the factory had increased to more than 1,460, as Tesla had promised New York State.
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