A power outage on October 4 at REC’s polysilicon production facilities in Moses Lake, Washington, caused a complete shut down of operations. REC said there had been no safety issues, but it would be two to three weeks before full production could be resumed at pre-outage levels, resulting in a 500MT reduction to REC’s previously guided annual output at the facility of 19,000MT.
The Moses Lake facility was hit by an area-wide outage, which the local energy provider, Grant County Public Utility District, said it was working-on identifying the route cause to the incident.
REC said it would provide further updates during its third quarter financial results due on October 26th.