UK Startup Awendio Plans $725 Million Solar-Cell Plant in Quebec

British startup Awendio Solaris is drafting plans to invest as much as C$1 billion ($725 million) into a solar technologies factory in Canada, though it still needs to secure power supply and financing.

The company wants to build a manufacturing facility and a research and development center on an industrial site in the Montreal region. The operation would manufacture solar cells and assemble solar panels for North American utilities, delivering up to 2,500 megawatts of annual production capacity in its first phase, according to the firm’s website.