The 7,000sq m facility is under lease to the company for ten years, and will be operational by August 2011.

United Solar will upgrade the existing building and deploy capital equipment with total first year project capital anticipated to be approximately $4m.

The company said it will manufacture its proprietary thin-film solar laminates in the facility specifically for sale in the Ontario market.

The solar plant will have an initial annualized capacity of 15MW.