Pilkington North America, Inc., based in Ohio, will soon be feeling the benefits of the glass it produces for First Solar, one of the companies that uses Pilkington glass. Hull & Associates, Inc., a project development company, is building a 248 kilowatt solar farm at Pilkington's research and development facility in Toledo, Ohio. The photovoltaic array will provide power to the facility where new glasses for PV modules are being developed by Pilkington. The USD 1.5 million system will supply about 12% of the electricity needed to run Pilkington's research and development facility. Hull is financing the system, in part with a USD 680,782 grant from the Ohio Energy Office through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Construction on the array, which is being built on a brownfield, began in December 2010 and, according to Giles, "We expect it to be done by the end of January."
