Nov. 11, 2010 (China Knowledge) - GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd<
3800> on Nov. 10 said it has signed a cooperative agreement with a U.S.-based bank, Wells Fargo & Co, to start photovoltaic projects with installed capacity totaling
50 megawatts in the U.S. by the end of 2011.
Pursuant to the agreement, the Hong Kong-listed firm will acquire
more than US$100 million of loans from the bank to launch several PV projects, which are principally for public facilities, through a subsidiary GCL Solar Energy.
In June, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings announced plans to spend US$50 million and US$5 million to build two solar power stations with totaled installed capacity of 9.7 MW in California.
At present, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, a foreign-owned independent cogeneration plant operator in China, has a 20-MW PV station under operation in
Xuzhou,
Jiangsu Province with an electricity generating capacity of 24.76 gigawatt hours per year.
In addition, the PV firm aims to have an annual output
capacity of 21,000 tons of polycrystalline silicon and 3.5 GW of silicon chips by the end of this year.