Gigafactory 2
 Location of Gigafactory 2
Location of Gigafactory 2
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| Built | September 2014 |
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| Operated | August 2017 |
| Location | Buffalo, Erie County, New York, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 42°51′32″N 78°50′24″W / 42.859°N 78.840°WCoordinates: 42°51′32″N 78°50′24″W / 42.859°N 78.840°W |
| Industry | Energy storage and generation |
| Products | Photovolatic cells, Solar panels, Solar shingles |
| Employees | 44 |
| Address | 1339 South Park Ave, Buffalo, NY 14220 |
| Owner(s) | State of New York |
The Tesla Gigafactory 2 is a photovoltaic (PV) cell factory, leased by Tesla subsidiary SolarCity in Buffalo, New York.
In a partnership with Panasonic, the factory started limited assembly of photovoltaic modules in the summer of 2017 using imported Japanese PV cells, and will begin mass production of modules through October 2017. In 2018, SolarCity plans to begin production of individual solar cells.
The factory, owned by the state of New York, was built on a remediated brownfield site from a former steel mill. As SolarCity acquired Silevo and merged into Tesla, plans for the factory grew significantly.
After the acquisition of SolarCity and the completion of Gigafactory 1 near Reno, Nevada, Tesla began to refer to the SolarCity Gigafactory as Gigafactory 2. The Europe Gigafactory will be named either Gigafactory 3, 4, or 5 and the location will be announced in 2017.
Republic Steel and Donner Hanna Coke operated a major steel mill along the Buffalo River on the 88-acreSouth Buffalo site from the early part of the 20th century to its closing in 1984. As a response to the regional manufacturing downturn related to deindustrialization in the Rust Belt, the State of New York created an economic stimulus package, later dubbed the "Buffalo Billion," unveiled by Governor Andrew Cuomo during his 2012 State of the State address. This package included a provision for $1 billion in unearmarked economic investments for the Buffalo area.
On November 21, 2013, Cuomo returned to Buffalo to announce the Buffalo High-Tech Manufacturing Hub at Riverbend, targeting the Republic Steel site, then a brownfield, for the development of a clean energy business incubation center that was to be funded with $225 million from the Buffalo Billion fund. At the time, the two companies announced as tenants were lighting manufacturer SORAA and solar panel manufacturer Silevo, which promised 475 jobs. Development of the site would be managed by the SUNY Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, now SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
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