{"id":101556,"date":"2023-03-14T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/?p=101556"},"modified":"2023-03-14T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:21:54","slug":"china-based-solar-panel-maker-setting-up-1-gw-factory-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2023\/03\/china-based-solar-panel-maker-setting-up-1-gw-factory-in-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"China-based solar panel maker setting up 1-GW factory in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another China-based solar panel manufacturer says it is starting a crystalline silicon solar panel assembly factory in the United States. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/tag\/usa-manufacturing\/\">See all recent U.S. manufacturing news here.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hounen-SC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hounen-SC-500x325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hounen-SC-500x325.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hounen-SC-368x238.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hounen-SC.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hounensolar.com\/\">Hounen Solar America<\/a>, the U.S. division of China\u2019s Zhejiang Hounen Photoelectric Co., Ltd., will invest $33 million into an existing 200,000-sq-ft facility in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to eventually support 1 GW of annual solar panel production capacity and <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.sc.gov\/news\/2023-03\/hounen-solar-establishing-first-us-manufacturing-operations-orangeburg-county\">200 new jobs,<\/a> the South Carolina Governor&#8217;s office reported this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to announce our first manufacturing operations in the United States,&#8221; said Jufang Lv, Hounen Solar CEO. &#8220;Our new solar panel assembly plant will allow us to produce 1 GW crystalline silicon PV panels for markets in the U.S. We are grateful for the help and support of the South Carolina team and look forward to providing more economic opportunities in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No timelines on hiring or manufacturing startup were provided.<\/p>\n<p>C&amp;D Clean Energy, a renewable energy supply chain service provider based in China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicorn-sd.com\/cd-clean-energy-and-unicorn-solar-announce-cooperation-on-500mw-solar-module-supply\/\">inked a deal last month<\/a> with U.S. distributor Unicorn Solar to distribute 500 MW of C&amp;D solar panels in the United States. In booth displays at Intersolar North America, C&amp;D said it had local manufacturing in Orangeburg, South Carolina, in a building identical to the one in which Hounen is setting up. It appears as though C&amp;D may white-label Hounen panels for distribution in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>Solar Power World<\/em> is awaiting further details from Hounen on the South Carolina factory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/u-s-solar-panel-manufacturers\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-flat\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#f9b049;border-color:#c88d3b;border-radius:0px;-moz-border-radius:0px;-webkit-border-radius:0px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:40px;border-color:#fbc880;border-radius:0px;-moz-border-radius:0px;-webkit-border-radius:0px;text-shadow:0px 0px 0px #000000;-moz-text-shadow:0px 0px 0px #000000;-webkit-text-shadow:0px 0px 0px #000000\"> See a list of U.S. solar manufacturers here.<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another China-based solar panel manufacturer says it is starting a crystalline silicon solar panel assembly factory in the United States. See all recent U.S. manufacturing news here.\u00a0 Hounen Solar America, the U.S. division of China\u2019s Zhejiang Hounen Photoelectric Co., Ltd., will invest $33 million into an existing 200,000-sq-ft facility in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to eventually&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":101558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[16,2650],"tags":[5463],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China-based solar panel maker setting up 1-GW factory in South Carolina<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another China-based solar panel manufacturer says it is starting a crystalline silicon solar panel assembly factory in the United States. 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