EcoWatch: Elon Musk`s alternate-energy aspirations don`t end with Tesla`s electric vehicles.
Musk is also chairman of SolarCity, a firm responsible for three times the solar panel installations as its closest competitor. Along with executives Peter Rive and Lyndon Rive, Musk announced this week that the company will create a solar plant that would be the equivalent of Tesla`s "gigafactory" plan announced earlier this year.
"We are in discussions with the state of New York to build the initial manufacturing...