JAXUSA Partnership scheduled Nigel Cockroft, JinkoSolar's general manager for the United States and Canada, as the keynote speaker for its fourth-quarter meeting Dec. 13.
The partnership is the economic development division of JAX Chamber.
The program is scheduled noon-1:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront at 225 E. Coastline Drive.
The cost is $50 for JAXUSA investors; $65 for chamber members; and $75 for nonmembers.
For information, visit myjaxchamber.com.
JinkoSolar (U.S.) Industries, a subsidiary of China-based JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd., is building-out a solar-panel plant in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center.
JinkoSolar agreed to open a 200-job, $50 million plant with the support of city and state incentives. The jobs, which will pay an average annual $45,562, must be created by the end of 2019.
The company will lease 285,652 square feet in the 407,435-square-foot building at 4660 POW-MIA Memorial Parkway.
Financial support comprises city tax incentives of $3.4 million, consisting of a $3.2 million Recapture Enhanced Value grant to be paid over 10 years and a $200,000 Qualified Target Industry tax refund for JinkoSolar to be repaid over five years.
The state will pay the remaining $800,000 of the total $1 million QTI refund.