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Longtime First Solar component supplier to open new factory in Louisiana

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:27:55 +0000

One of First Solar’s longtime component manufacturing partners will establish a new production facility in Lacassine, Louisiana to support First Solar’s upcoming 3.5-GW solar panel manufacturing site in the state. Ice Industries, a heavy metals contract manufacturer first established in Ohio, will invest $6 million into a new production facility that will initially focus on…

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Meyer Burger pulls plans for silicon cell manufacturing in US

Kelly Pickerel — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:02:47 +0000

Meyer Burger announced today that it was suspending planned construction of a silicon solar cell production facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as it is “no longer financially viable for the company.” The Swiss technology company first announced plans for a cell factory in July 2023. The 2-GW operations in a former Intel semiconductor fabrication plant…

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TMEIC unveils plans to open new central inverter factory in Texas

Kelsey Misbrener — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:52:26 +0000

TMEIC Corporation Americas, a subsidiary of TMEIC Corporation (Japan), announced plans to relocate its headquarters to Houston, Texas, in March 2025. Concurrently, underscoring its commitment to U.S.-based PV manufacturing, TMEIC will establish a 144,000 ft2 facility in Brookshire, Texas, dedicated to manufacturing utility-scale PV inverters. The decision to relocate its headquarters from Roanoke, Virginia to…

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NorSun to supply Heliene’s new US solar cell factory with silicon wafers

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:20:53 +0000

Minnesota-based solar panel manufacturer Heliene announced last month it would partner with Premier Energies to manufacture silicon solar cells within the state, and now the company has a domestic wafer supply established after signing a multi-year contract with NorSun. NorSun, which has been producing silicon wafers in Norway since 2007, intends to start a 5-GW…

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Biden bumps number of silicon solar cells that can enter country tariff-free

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:26:59 +0000

President Biden is giving the domestic solar panel manufacturing market a break from tariffs on imported solar cells with the latest announcement from the White House. The president has modified actions taken earlier this year on tariffed crystalline silicon solar (CSPV) imports by increasing the amount of silicon solar cells that can enter the country…

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Chip company says it will start solar cell manufacturing in New Mexico

Kelly Pickerel — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:03:31 +0000

Last week, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that new company Ebon Solar would be establishing silicon solar cell manufacturing operations in Albuquerque’s Mesa del Sol industrial development area, the same area where Maxeon is expected to start its own operations. Ebon Solar, a division of Singapore-based blockchain and Fintech company Ebang International, will…

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DOE loan office backs Qcells with $1.45 billion for new solar panel factory The plant is expected to produce ingots, wafers, cells and finished solar panels by late 2024.

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:10:07 +0000

As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced today a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of up to $1.45 billion to Qcells, a leading North American crystalline silicon solar manufacturer. The loan guarantee will support Qcells’ solar supply chain facility in Cartersville,…

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U.S. Senators introduce legislation to prevent Chinese companies from getting IRA dollars

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:26:56 +0000

A group of bipartisan U.S. Senators introduced legislation today that would block taxpayer money from going to Chinese solar and clean energy companies. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced the “American Tax Dollars for American Solar Manufacturing Act” to prevent taxpayer dollars, including funds from the…

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Heliene, Premier Energies to make silicon solar cells in US

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:58:25 +0000

Canadian solar panel manufacturer Heliene, which has a manufacturing campus in Minnesota, announced it would partner with Premier Energies of India to establish silicon solar cell manufacturing in the United States. Heliene currently sources cells from Premier’s facility in Hyderabad. Under the agreement, the new U.S. facility will have 1-GW annual manufacturing capacity of n-type…

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Hithium to set up 10-GWh battery manufacturing plant in Texas

Kelly Pickerel — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:25:30 +0000

Chinese energy storage system manufacturer Hithium will invest $100 million into a 483,874-ft2 facility in Mesquite, Texas, to assemble batteries. The site should support 10 GWh annual capacity and 141 manufacturing jobs. “The new facility will accelerate Hithium’s development and production of energy storage system products for the U.S. market while also boosting the Mesquite area’s economic…

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SolarEdge begins shipping product from second US manufacturing facility

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:29:00 +0000

SolarEdge announced that it has reached significant milestones in the company’s U.S. manufacturing strategy, driven by the incentives offered by the IRA. SolarEdge is now manufacturing in the U.S. through global electronics contract manufacturers. The first facility in Austin, Texas, opened in late 2023 and reached a quarterly manufacturing run rate of 50,000 residential Home…

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GameChange Solar trackers to be 100% US-made in 2025

Billy Ludt — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:13:12 +0000

GameChange Solar, a global supplier of solar tracking solutions, announced that by Q4 2025 the company’s Genius Tracker will meet the maximum value of domestic content for solar trackers. GameChange currently manufactures torque tubes, foundations, controllers, certain structural fasteners and rails in the United States, and plans to add U.S.-made drive systems, dampers, motors and…

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NorSun to make silicon ingots and wafers at new 5-GW factory in Oklahoma

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:36:56 +0000

Norwegian silicon wafer manufacturer NorSun announced it will build a new 5-GW silicon ingot and wafer manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company will invest $620 million into the site on Tulsa International Airport property. The factory should support 320 direct jobs. “Our business plan has an ambitious timeline, so we knew we needed a…

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Solar panel production begins at Meyer Burger plant in Arizona

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:08:19 +0000

Swiss solar technology pioneer Meyer Burger has started solar module assembly production at its new plant in Goodyear, Arizona. A factory audit was recently completed, and Meyer Burger said it passed without any issues. The solar cells being used in the American-assembled panels were produced at Meyer Burger’s German facility. Eventually, Meyer Burger will switch…

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Origami Solar steel module frames find manufacturing home in US

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:01:12 +0000

Steel solar panel frame producer Origami Solar has secured a fully American supply chain, including working with three U.S. steel fabricators. The three partnerships – with Welser Profile of Valley City, Ohio; Priefert, of Mt. Pleasant, Texas; and Unimacts of Houston, Texas – will enable Origami to ship steel solar frames to customers in the first quarter of 2025.…

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