GAF Energy to develop solar shingle manufacturing facility in Texas

• GAF Energy has committed to developing a new solar shingle manufacturing facility in Georgetown, Texas that will see its annual capacity rise to 300MW.

It is the California-based business's 2nd facility-- its first remains in California, which the firm onshored in the middle of last year-- as well as will certainly increase its production capacity by 500%, according to GAF Energy, which also asserted the step would certainly make it "the biggest manufacturer of solar roofing in the world".

The 450,000 square foot manufacturing facility will certainly produce GAF Energy's Timberline solar shingles, which GAF Energy stated represents the globe's initial "nailable" solar shingle in addition to being "the only roof system to straight incorporate solar modern technology right into typical roofing processes and also materials."

" Georgetown has a lengthy record as a clean energy leader, so it is the ideal house for us to develop the future of solar," said Martin DeBono, president of GAF Energy.

A Standard Industries company, GAF Energy is the sister company of North American roofing firm GAF, which GAF Energy claimed would be a benefit for its procedures with access to R&D and roof covering partners, "distinctly positioning GAF Energy to bring residential solar to the mass market."

Certainly, 2021 saw enhancing integration in between solar PV and also other verticals such as roof as well as construction to stimulate higher PV release, especially across the US.