NorSun and Heliene have entered right into a multi-year contract, beginning in 2026, for the provision of Heliene’s annual requirement of U.S.-made silicon wafers.
NorSun expects to ship the merchandise from its deliberate 5 GW wafer manufacturing unit in Tulsa, Okla., additionally deliberate for 2026. Heliene is slated to take supply to their cell manufacturing unit to be constructed within the Higher Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota metro space.
“NorSun is honored to accomplice with Heliene to provide our wafers for his or her high-performance photo voltaic cells and modules,” says Erik Løkke-Øwre, CEO of NorSun.
“The contract signifies the shut collaboration with Heliene geared toward delivering premium photo voltaic modules to the US market. NorSun and Heliene are each devoted to creating low carbon, domestically produced options based mostly on sustainable worth chains freed from pressured labor. Within the months main as much as remaining choices on the finish of 2024, it’s now essential that additional coverage measures are taken to control the US market to verify the IRA program can take full impact.”
Each firms are transferring ahead with their respective plant building initiatives and anticipate groundbreaking later this 12 months.
