{"id":107139,"date":"2024-08-26T08:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/\/?p=107139"},"modified":"2024-09-23T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T11:53:00","slug":"meyer-burger-pulls-plans-for-silicon-cell-manufacturing-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/\/2024\/08\/meyer-burger-pulls-plans-for-silicon-cell-manufacturing-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Meyer Burger pulls plans for silicon cell manufacturing in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meyer Burger announced today that it was suspending planned construction of a silicon solar cell production facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as it is &#8220;no longer financially viable for the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss technology company first <a href=\"https:\/\/\/2023\/07\/meyer-burger-to-establish-solar-cell-manufacturing-in-colorado\/\">announced plans<\/a> for a cell factory in July 2023. The 2-GW operations in a former Intel semiconductor fabrication plant would support its solar panel assembly facility in Goodyear, Arizona, which officially began <a href=\"https:\/\/\/2024\/06\/solar-panel-production-begins-at-meyer-burger-plant-in-arizona\/\">production in June<\/a>. Instead, Meyer Burger said its existing cell production facility in Thalheim, Germany, will remain fully operational and continue to be the company&#8217;s core solar cell supplier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the current market conditions, these [German] solar cells are the most economical option for supplying the module production in Goodyear,&#8221; the company said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer Burger specializes in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/\/2019\/11\/what-are-heterojunction-technology-hjt-solar-panels\/\">heterojunction technology (HJT)<\/a>, a combination of crystalline silicon and amorphous silicon thin-film. The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2024\/02\/23\/meyer-burger-prepares-to-shut-down-plant-in-germany\/\">shut down<\/a> its German solar panel production facility earlier this year due to the collapse of the European panel manufacturing market.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer Burger also announced today it would not scale its Arizona solar panel assembly facility beyond 1.4 GW, but noted the building could support 2 GW or more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/\/u-s-solar-panel-manufacturers\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-3d\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#EB790A;border-color:#bc6108;border-radius:56px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:40px;border-color:#f1a254;border-radius:56px;text-shadow:0px 0px 0px #000000\"> See SPW&#8217;s list of U.S. solar manufacturers here.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meyer Burger announced today that it was suspending planned construction of a silicon solar cell production facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as it is &#8220;no longer financially viable for the company.&#8221; The Swiss technology company first announced plans for a cell factory in July 2023. The 2-GW operations in a former Intel semiconductor fabrication plant&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":100104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2650],"tags":[5557],"class_list":{"2":"type-post","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meyer Burger pulls plans for silicon cell manufacturing in US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Meyer Burger announced today that it was suspending planned construction of a silicon solar cell production facility in Colorado Springs, 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