BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]
Joel Davidson
joeldavidson at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 23 10:13:34 PST 2002
Yes, Virginia. There really is a Santa Claus.
http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-news3_122102dec21,0,597503.story?coll=va-news
Jeff Yago wrote:
> Since I live about 40 miles from the BP plant in Virginia that is
> closing, let my provide some background that was not in the news.
>
> This was a new plant from the ground up including building, machinery,
> everything. They had this about as automated as you can get, with
> computer controlled glass plating line, laser cell etching, etc. The
> only manual operation I saw was attaching the wiring leads to the
> back.
>
> Virginia offered lots of tax and business incentives to get Solorex
> (BP) them to move here in the first place as several states were in
> the competition. Virginia also funded a program with about $4.00/watt
> buy down for all large in state commercial and institutional sales.
>
> What nobody has mentioned yet, is what about all the lost tax revenue
> that they benefited from and then packed up and left town? There were
> a lot of dedicated employees here that were really trying to make it a
> go. My guess is somebody will soon realize Virginia got the short end
> of the stick and will try to recover some of these losses.
>
> Jeff Yago
> Richmond Virginia
>
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