The corrugated medium and linerboard board are made of kraft containerboard, a paperboard material usually over 0.01 inches (0.25 mm) thick.
The panels contain cells made in China, Taiwan and, sometimes, Germany. Grape still plans to import inexpensive Chinese-made cells, and to buy Oregon-made inverters -- which convert direct current to alternating current -- for the panels it assembles in Eugene.
Horror at the world's largest solar farm days after it opens as it is revealed panels are SCORCHING birds that fly over them. 1  The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world's largest solar plant of its kind, recently switched on. 2  The plants is located on five square miles of the Mojave Desert, near the California / Nevada border.