Tesla aims to revitalize its solar energy and storage business this year after 2019 slump

energy revenue declined by over $24 million in 2019, after several rounds of layoffs that started the prior year.annual financial report"We have recently started manufacturing solar panels at this facility in collaboration with Panasonic," the filing states.needs to increase headcount at the Buffalo plant, dubbed Gigafactory 2. If Tesla fails to employ 1,460 people there in April, it will have to pay a $41.2 million penalty to the state of New York or get an exemption.

, who sued the automaker in 2017 over its $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity. They say the deal never should have happened and called it a bailout of Musk and his cousins, Lyndon and Peter Rive, who started SolarCity. Since the acquisition, solar energy has been a relatively small and dwindling business for Tesla, in part because of delays in manufacturing and a longer development cycle than expected.

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