August 15, 2005—US Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman joined United Solar Ovonic on July 14 in breaking ground on the company’s new amorphous silicon thin-film solar manufacturing plant in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
When the new 160,000-square-foot facility is completed in May 2006, it will create 200 new jobs and double production, allowing the company to produce enough solar modules each year to generate 50 megawatts of power.
United Solar Ovonic’s existing plant is already the largest of its type in the world, producing flexible thin-film solar power modules using technologies developed through 20 years of research by the company and DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
