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Central SC Alliance core mission of recruiting best-in-class companies continues with today’s announcement. Our region has solidified its position in South Carolina as a preferred location of choice for green jobs and high tech focused companies. I want to recognize and congratulate all the local and state officials involved in the project.”
In August 2010, AQT celebrated the opening of its first manufacturing facility, located in Sunnyvale, California, with 15MW of production capacity. This facility will also increase production capacity this year, reaching its full 30-40MW annual capacity by the end of 2011.
ReadySC (
http://www.readysc.org ), South Carolina’s workforce recruiting and training program, is working closely with AQT to assist with recruitment as well as customized training design and delivery, led by an experienced project management team.
Founded in 2007, AQT Solar deploys a proprietary process on proven manufacturing platforms to produce high-performance, low-cost CIGS thin-film solar cells. For more information, visit
www.aqtsolar. com.
The S.C. Department of Commerce works closely with economic development professionals throughout the state to recruit new jobs and investments and help existing businesses grow. Commerce has been recognized for its success in the areas of job creation and economic impact by Area Development and Business Facilities magazines.
The S.C. Department of Commerce was one of 10 state economic development organizations to receive Area Development’s Silver Shovel Award in 2009 and Commerce received the 2009 Deal of the Year award from Business Facilities magazine. Southern Business & Development also awarded the S.C. Department of Commerce the “Deal of the Year” for the 2010 SB&D 100. Commerce received the recognitions for Boeing’s selection of North Charleston for the company’s second final assembly plant to support the 787 Dreamliner program. In addition to job and investment recruitment, the agency provides a range of business support services and offers grants for community development and infrastructure improvements.
First Solar Acquires RayTracker to Accelerate PV Growth
RayTracker will join First Solar’s Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) group to accelerate clean, affordable and sustainable solar electricity.
First Solar has acquired RayTracker, a tracking technology and photovoltaic (PV) balance-of- systems firm that is an operating company of Idealab.
Idealab is a creator and operator of technology companies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
RayTracker’s entire team will join First Solar’s Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) group, bringing expertise in solar technology innovation, reliability engineering, advanced PV system modeling, software engineering, product development and high-volume manufacturing. RayTracker’s customers will be transitioned to First Solar.
“We expect the addition of RayTracker’s people and technology will help accelerate our ongoing quest to enable a world powered by clean, affordable and sustainable solar electricity,” said Bruce Sohn, President of First Solar. “We welcome RayTracker’s innovative associates to our advanced systems development team.”
“We are excited to join forces with First Solar, which shares our vision of reducing the levelized cost of solar electricity to that of fossil fuels,” said Mark Henderson, President of RayTracker. “From early on in our discussions with First Solar, it was very clear that there was great synergy between the capabilities and technologies of the two companies.” In advance of the acquisition by First Solar, technology developed by RayTracker includes its GC-SeriesTM single-axis trackers, its unique PV-PlatformTM Software Toolset for system design and operation, wireless infrastructure technology, and other PV balance-of-system innovations.
First Solar manufactures solar modules with an advanced semiconductor technology and provides
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