Heliene formally reduce the ribbon on its new photo voltaic module assemble facility in Rogers, Minnesota. The five hundred-MW website has been operational since April 29. Heliene additionally operates two panel meeting strains in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, with a capability of 800 MW. The corporate’s complete U.S. manufacturing capability is now 1.3 GW yearly.
The primary photo voltaic panels off the brand new line in Rogers. Credit score: Heliene LinkedIn
“Heliene is experiencing continued demand for our high-quality, high-domestic content material photo voltaic PV modules,” mentioned Martin Pochtaruk, CEO of Heliene. “By practically doubling our manufacturing capability at our new Rogers, Minnesota, facility, we are able to proceed to supply best-in-class totally home content material merchandise and repair to our prospects, whereas we ship on our broader objective of onshoring U.S. photo voltaic provide chains, by incorporating domestically-produced, cells, frames, polymers and different vital parts.”
Heliene is hiring greater than 220 new workers to assist the Rogers facility. The Canadian-headquartered firm acquired $2.3 million in funding from the Minnesota Division of Employment and Financial Improvement (DEED), with particular funding from the Minnesota Funding Fund (MIF), Minnesota Job Creation Fund (JCF) and the Minnesota Job Expertise Partnership (MJSP), to assist job creation.
Throughout all three manufacturing strains in Minnesota, Heliene is producing bifacial silicon photo voltaic panels with the best attainable proportion of home content material out there 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.
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