A New York solar panel maker is considering Colorado Springs for what its chief executive claims could become the country’s largest solar cell manufacturing plant once completed.
FILE – A solar panel factory in Perrysburg, Ohio on Aug. 14, 2023. Some Biden administration officials are concerned that a flood of Chinese imports could threaten the survival of U.S. factories.
“We do want to set this factory up in Colorado Springs,” Hari Achuthan told commissioners on a Zoom call. “As we execute, we would probably be the largest cell factory in the U.S.”, a solar cell and panel maker based in Waterton, N.Y. When SunPower closed its manufacturing plant in Hillsboro, Ore., in 2021, Convalt acquired it, according to the company’s website. Before that, the company provided solar power capacity in developing countries like Myanmar, Vietnam and Sierra Leone.
Solar or photovoltaic cells convert light into electricity and are assembled into solar panels or modules, arrays of which can be placed on buildings or the ground. The U.S.The commission also awarded $3.8 million to Project Omega, a financial service firm based in Colorado that is looking to expand in either Boulder County, Illinois, Michigan or North Carolina.
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