The international clean energy company Enel wants to build a solar panel manufacturing facility in Oklahoma and Gov. Kevin Stitt is asking state lawmakers to support an undisclosed incentive package to seal the deal.

Enel North America is eying the Tulsa Port of Inola as a potential site for the plant, which would create an estimated 1,500 jobs.

Oklahoma is the leading candidate to land the facility and Enel is “excited about the possibility to expand our presence in the state,” Giovanni Bertolino, the head of Enel North America’s 3Sun USA solar panel affiliate, told The Frontier in a statement.

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The Inola/Fairoaks area just east of Tulsa is a big focus for the city and state as a new major industrial site with both rail and water access and much closer to workers in metro Tulsa than MAIP in Pryor. And the area is directly adjacent to US-412, which will soon be an Interstate. Pryor's upside over this area is clean hydro power but it's immediate nearby population base is lower and has no port access.