1of6Exterior of Plug Power on Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Colonie, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less2of6Plug Power's new warehouse and fuel cells assembly facility Friday August 17, 2018 in Clifton Park, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale/Times Union)John Carl D'AnnibaleShow MoreShow Less3of6Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, at Plug Power in Colonie, N.Y., where Gov. Cuomo was endorsed by the state Business Council. (Will Waldron/Times Union)WWShow MoreShow Less4of6Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh speaks at the opening of their new warehouse and fuel cells assembly facility Friday August 17, 2018 in Clifton Park, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale/Times Union)John Carl D'AnnibaleShow MoreShow Less5of6Materials manager Chris Jacobs, left, and company COO Keith Schid with their new metal stack increasing power density by 3 times over previous units during the opening of Plug Power's new warehouse and fuel cells assembly facility Friday August 17, 2018 in Clifton Park, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale/Times Union)John Carl D'AnnibaleShow MoreShow Less6of6Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh, left, with U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York in Washington, D.C. Marsh presented Schumer with a special award for pushing through a tax credit on fuel cell purchases.Plug PowerShow MoreShow Less
COLONIE — Plug Power has decided to go to the Rochester area to build its new $125 million hydrogen fuel cell "gigafactory" that would eclipse its current factory in Latham as its largest manufacturing facility.
The decision is a blow to the Capital Region, which had hoped to land the factory, expected to be one of the largest fuel cell factories in the world making the proton exchange membrane technology that is used in Plug Power's fuel cell stacks.
The factory, which will be built in the town of Henrietta in Monroe County, is expected to employ 377 people.
Plug Power makes fuel cells used in fork lift trucks, but it also has new products in development for on-road vehicles and drones.
The state will give Plug Power $13 million in tax credits for placing the factory in New York state. Other states were also likely in the running.
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