Moreover, he is not completely unsympathetic.

In order to fire all the more than 1,000 people in the company, the company also made some arrangements.

More than 100 of these technical backbones will stay in the automated factory to perform on-site maintenance operations.

Another 500 people are planned to be assigned to the first-line assembly production line. Only the remaining 400 people will be mobilized by the company to transfer to the sales department or to work as maintenance workers in desert power plants.

In short, the company takes into account the trouble that the union may cause and will try its best to complete this personnel change without laying off employees.

But if those workers want to be tough to the end, then don’t blame Richard for being ruthless!

If you want to go on strike, just go on strike until the end. The worst we can do is recruit new people.

Richard walked into his office and recalled various events in the past few days. Sometimes he frowned, and sometimes he beamed with joy.

He looked at a report in his hand and trembled with excitement.

This is a test report of the latest solar panels.

The above data results are specially marked: "The photoelectric conversion rate reaches 49%!"

So amazing!

Because theoretically, the upper limit of the photoelectric conversion efficiency of silicon solar cells is about 33%.

And this batch of solar wafers actually achieved a terrifying 49% conversion rate!

If this was a report from a laboratory, he wouldn't be that surprised.

Richard worked as a manager in an electronics company a long time ago.

Later, he applied for the position of executive general manager of Northern California Solar Energy Company, where he has been for more than five years.

Being able to maintain a foothold in this company that frequently changes general managers shows that his own abilities are still very good.

Of course he knew that in some special laboratories, solar panels with photoelectric conversion rates exceeding 40% had been created.

However, there is currently only one example in the world that can be commercialized and mass-produced to supply them in large quantities!

The company used the purchased high-efficiency solar sheets, coupled with the focusing lens purchased from another company, and used the purchased technology to produce a temperature control device to form a complete set of solar cells.

Therefore, when the company's board of directors asked him whether he should be responsible for installing solar panels in those communities as his main business in the future, as before.

Richard rejected their idea on the spot and proposed a bold plan - to invest in building a solar power plant himself.

This will transform the company from the role of a contractor to a power supplier!

The plan he proposed is quite bold!

The investment in building a solar power plant is not small, although the cost of a complete set of solar panels is only an astonishingly low price of US$1,300.

But to build a solar power plant, including other ancillary facilities, the investment would be as high as US$300 million per square kilometer!

He secretly calculated that with the company's own strength, it could only build a power plant of ten square kilometers at most. No matter how large it was, it would be unable to do anything.

So, behind the back of the board of directors, Richard quietly contacted the Rockefeller Group, the Morgan Group, First Citibank, the DuPont Group, and other important large financial groups in the United States.

A relevant test report and a physical sample were presented.

In Richard's opinion, the company cannot afford it with its own financial resources, but he is not willing to give it to others.

Instead of doing this, it is better to secretly contact these large financial groups and get their support. It is best to get some funds from them.

In this way, your position will be more secure.

And if there is no accident, the company will eventually be annexed by these large consortiums, so he can be regarded as leaning against a big tree in advance.

Isn’t it better than a small regional general manager now?

There are a large number of cheaply supplied high-conversion solar cells. This alone is enough to make these energy giants tempted.

Richard looked at the report and his mouth watered.

The company used a focusing lens with a power of 1,800 times to assemble a solar cell array with a length of 1.7 meters and a width of 1.7 meters, with a current output of 6.9 kilowatts per hour!

In one square kilometer, at least more than 200,000 solar cell arrays can be arranged without considering reserved detection channels.

The power generation capacity can reach approximately 2.3 million kilowatts per hour!

The test report stated that these solar cells are made of special crystalline silicon material, with stable performance and very high quality.

It can achieve a long service life of twenty to thirty years.

Even if we compromise, it will still be twenty-five years!

It only needs to generate electricity for eight hours a day, 365 days a year, and the construction cost of 300 million US dollars per square kilometer is evenly divided, and the cost per kilowatt is less than one cent!

If he had not seen such an excellent cost advantage, Richard would not have proposed to the board of directors on the spot that he should not be a seller but build the power plant himself.

If it weren't for the fact that the cost of electricity was so low, Richard wouldn't have the guts to go behind the back of the board of directors and quietly contact the major consortiums.

He was sure that those greedy consortiums, seeing this extremely low-cost energy advantage, would be unable to resist and get involved!

Even if the company relies on its own strength and eventually builds a power station, it will inevitably be merged and acquired by those consortiums.

Instead of looking at other people's faces and being kicked out.

It is better to strike first and join the future master in advance.

Those guys on the board of directors still stupidly thought that when they went out every day, they were going to banks to raise financing and construction costs.

Ha ha!

They also don’t think about which bank in the entire United States is capable of undertaking a huge investment of hundreds of billions of dollars.

Even if they had so much money, they would not allow it to be withdrawn slowly over a long period of more than 20 years.

In addition to the U.S. Department of Energy, only those large consortiums are likely to pay for such a large sum of money.

Thinking of the bright future, Richard was so excited that he couldn't control himself and walked around the office.

However, the corner of his eye was always staring at a telephone on his desk.

I hope the phone ringing with good news will ring soon.

Ring ring ring~

The sudden ringing of the phone made Richard tremble all over.

He quickly rushed to his desk and grabbed the phone.

"I'm Richard!...What...Chairman?"

"Yes, come to the conference room. I understand. I'll be there right away."

Richard put down the phone in disappointment. He didn't know what the guys on the board of directors were doing. Why did they suddenly ask me to go to the conference room?

Are you blaming me for not handling the workers' strike issue well?

Full of suspicion, Richard put on his coat, tidied up his appearance in front of the mirror, and left the office with a confident smile.

He came to the company's office building and the conference room on the ninth floor.

As soon as he opened the door, his hand quickly retracted as if he was electrocuted.

In the conference room, he clearly saw people from the Rockefeller Foundation, sitting arrogantly among them!
Chapter completed!