Meyer Burger optimising production development to 1.4 GW in Germany to cater for European demand
- Heterojunction cell and also module supplier Meyer Burger has actually started development of a brand-new module facility with an additional 400MW in Germany to cater for European demand.
The devices provider-turned-module producer anticipates the Freiburg website to produce 1.4 GW of module capacity from 2023 and has, for the short term, began using solar cell capacities at its Thalheim site in Germany instead of its US facility to help optimise its growth strategies and reduce transport times.
For this objective, the company protected a lasting lease on a building near its present facilities in Thalheim that will be devoted to increasing manufacturing of solar cells.
Meyer Burger specified that its "production capacities in Germany contribute to settling Europe's fundamental import dependence".
In Addition, Meyer Burger is simultaneously increasing its module manufacturing in the United States with primary work initiated during the initial quarter of this year, in order to reach a yearly capacity of 1.5 GW in its plant in Goodyear, Arizona.
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