The company aimed to get to one gigawatt of
annual production capacity there by manufacturing 10,000 high - efficiency panels per day, on four to five production lines.
Although
there is substantial uncertainty over the timing and size of expansions, the analysis suggests that new
capacity coming on stream between mid 2004 and 2007 would imply an increase in overall
production of around 28 per cent from the levels of 2003/04, corresponding to
annual growth of about 9 per cent.