Hoosier pitches solar-power solution
An Arcadia man has developed a novel way to generate alternating current from the sun.
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Company expanding solar unit, plans to add 120 jobs
Fort Recovery Construction & Equipment in Portland plans to invest $1.9 million to accommodate research, development
and production of solar thermal collector panels.
Purdue aims to boost solar progress
Purdue University will join the quest for cheap solar-generated electricity with an initiative aimed at speeding up research
across the industry. The Network for Photovoltaic Technology will launch this fall, focused on creating computer models to
eliminate costly and slow trial-and-error research in the solar industry.
Indiana officials excited about solar company’s plan
Tipton County officials had been working for months to attract Abound Solar to the 800,000-square-foot factory along U.S.
31, where it might employ as many as 850 workers.
Solar panel maker must prove low production cost
The company says it will hire 900 to 1,200 people in Indiana, but first, it must focus on successfully scaling up its existing
facility in Colorado.
Solar firm investing $500M in unused Getrag plant; 850 jobs planned
A Colorado-based Abound Solar will get federal help taking over the empty Getrag plant on U.S. 31 near Kokomo,
creating as many as
850 jobs in the next three years and establishing what it says will be the largest such facility in the United States.