Thin Film Solar Company Picks Oregon
Thin-film solar panel manufacturer SoloPower is giving Oregon’s battered economy a boost, announcing it will locate a new plant in Wilsonville, a town about 20 miles south of Portland. The company...
View ArticleSolar Panel Maker SoloPower Gets Fed Loan
SoloPower, a thin fim solar manufacturer planning to open an Oregon plant that reportedly will create 270 jobs readying it and some 500 other jobs when production gears up, got a $197 million loan...
View ArticleSoloPower Gets Its DOE Loan Guarantee
With time running out on a key federal loan guarantee program intended to boost renewable energy production and technologies, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today finalized another loan deal,...
View ArticleIn Solyndra’s Shadow, SoloPower Opens Portland Plant
If it were three yours ago, President Obama might have been there to open the brand new government-backed solar power manufacturing plant. In the post-Solyndra Age, SoloPower got Portland Mayor Sam...
View ArticleSoloPower Plant Closing, Mere Months After Opening
SoloPower, we hardly new ye. Mere months after the maker of cutting-edge solar panels opened a manufacturing plant here in Portland, Ore., backed at all levels of government, it is suspending...
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