Heliene formally minimize the ribbon on its new photo voltaic module assemble facility in Rogers, Minnesota. The five hundred-MW web site has been operational since April 29. Heliene additionally operates two panel meeting traces in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, with a capability of 800 MW. The corporate’s complete U.S. manufacturing capability is now 1.3 GW yearly.
“Heliene is experiencing continued demand for our high-quality, high-domestic content material photo voltaic PV modules,” stated Martin Pochtaruk, CEO of Heliene. “By almost doubling our manufacturing capability at our new Rogers, Minnesota, facility, we are able to proceed to offer best-in-class totally home content material merchandise and repair to our prospects, whereas we ship on our broader aim of onshoring U.S. photo voltaic provide chains, by incorporating domestically-produced, cells, frames, polymers and different vital elements.”
Heliene is hiring greater than 220 new workers to help the Rogers facility. The Canadian-headquartered firm obtained $2.3 million in funding from the Minnesota Division of Employment and Financial Growth (DEED), with particular funding from the Minnesota Funding Fund (MIF), Minnesota Job Creation Fund (JCF) and the Minnesota Job Expertise Partnership (MJSP), to help job creation.
Throughout all three manufacturing traces in Minnesota, Heliene is producing bifacial silicon photo voltaic panels with the very best attainable share of home content material accessible in the marketplace. The corporate has signed provide agreements with Origami Solar for steel frames, SolarCycle for glass, and Hemlock, Corning and Suniva for polysilicon, wafers and cells.
