Rive, a hyperenergetic, fast - talking 37 - year - old, says he has a plan to get there, which includes building one of the world's largest solar -
panel plants in Buffalo — a move even many of his supporters say is crazy at a time when solar
manufacturers have been
struggling.
When this did not come to fruition, the industry was left with excess capacity and prices of PV products such as
panels, modules and cells declined and
manufacturers with high - levels of debt quickly found themselves in a
struggle to survive.