COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – A solar panel manufacturing company opened in College Station on Wednesday, promising to add 250 jobs to the region by the end of the year.
U.S. Modules celebrated its grand opening with a focus on American manufacturing. The company manufactures full-module solar panels used in large-scale power fields and farms across the country for utility power generation.
CIG companies, which power U.S. Modules as part of their solar assets, are fully owned by U.S. partners and companies. Brian Henley, chief compliance officer for CIG, said it is the people working on the line who drive the manufacturing.
“When we think of manufacturing, I think a lot of times people think of, well, is it robotic? What’s all that? This is real American people working here on the line,” Henley said. “And even though there’s robots doing much of the work, it still is operators and engineers and team members that are really coming together in that.”
The company is already expanding, adding more production lines inside the building.
Glen Brewer, president of the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce, said the facility will benefit local businesses and help to bring in more large companies as well.
“Not only does it bring a big capital investment here, we learned about all the people they’re going to hire, that’s great, but they need local small businesses to help support a business like this,” Brewer said. “And other large businesses see U.S. modules coming here, and they think, why are they coming here? What’s the situation that brought them here? And that will bring other large businesses and manufacturing.”
Charles D. Carey, founder and CEO of CIG, said solar power addresses Texas’s growing energy demand.
“Solar power provides a lower cost and a short amount of time to install the demand for energy, especially in Texas, because of the demand of all the Fortune 500s coming here, the growth of Texas,” Carey said. “So we believe for the consumer to have the best cost, it’s crucial that we provide this lower cost energy.”
The 150,000-square-foot building is filled with production lines now in motion.
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