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Sharp, one of Europe’s leading solar panel manufacturers have declares to create of 300 new jobs at its European production facility in Wrexham, north Wales. The new jobs follow the extension of production facilities in the factory and take the total number of employees from 800 to at least 1,100. Sharp has invests in surplus of above £20m in the plant.

Following this investment, sharp will practically double its annual production chance to 500 MW each year by March 2011 - sufficient to handle of 170,000 homes inside the UK. An additional 3,000 panels will probably be produced each day - growing from 5,000 to 8,000 once the expansion is complete. This expansion cements position of Sharp’s since the greatest employer within the UK alternative energy sector.

The UK is among the world’s fastest growing markets for cell technology - Ofgem recently reported over 17,244 solar installations had been made because the commence of the FIT to December 2010, whilst analysis from AMA predicts that the UK will growth close to 180,000 solar panels installed each year within 2015 as well as in surplus of 300,000 by 2020.

Head of international sales for Sharp Andrew Lee said; “This creation of job proved that there is an eagerness for solar technologies inside the UK which this sector has large growth potential, bucking the movement in the wider market. In spite of rising figures of unemployment and concerns over rising interest rates and inflation, body resulted in a go inside the arm for that solar business, and it has reacted by making jobs to assist drive business growth prospective for UK plc.”