Auxin Solar is an OEM.

First Solar is the world’s largest thin film PV maker, and operates multiple GW of Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin film module manufacturing in Malaysia and Vietnam as well as Ohio. In 2018 the company began commercial production of its large-format Series 6 module, as well as starting construction on a new 1.2 GW factory in Lake Township, Ohio.

Global Solar Energy is a subsidiary of Hanergy, which bought the company in 2013.

Korean/German PV maker Hanwha Q Cells is in the process of building the largest solar module factory in the Western Hemisphere in Dalton, Georgia. The factory will make modules incorporating half-cut mono-PERC cells.

JinkoSolar is the world’s largest PV maker, and officially opened its first U.S. module manufacturing facility on February 26. The factory is making 72-cell mono-PERC PV modules.

LG Solar is part of Korean conglomerate LG Electronics. The company is one of the largest module suppliers to the U.S. market, and is in the process of building a 500 MW module assembly factory in Alabama, which will make its NeON2 PV modules, which use its Cello copper wire interconnection technology.

MiaSolé is a subsidiary of China’s Hanergy, which bought the company for $30 million in 2012.

Silfab, which has operated PV factories in both Italy and Canada, purchased the Bellingham, Washington factory of U.S. module maker ITEK in 2018. Silfab is building a second module factory at an undisclosed location in the United States, which will have an initial capacity of 150 MW, and will produce modules using metal wrap through (MWT) technology.

Solaria additionally manufactures PV modules through a joint venture in Korea. The company has reached more than 100 MW of manufacturing capacity globally.

In addition to its Riviera Beach manufacturing, SolarTech Universal has told pv magazine that it is looking for a location in South Florida to host an additional 180 MW of manufacturing capacity.

SunPower makes the highest efficiency PV modules available for rooftop and utility-scale PV plants through its IBC PV cell technology, which it manufactures in Southeast Asia and Mexico. Following its purchase of SolarWorld Americas and the company’s factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, SunPower retooled the factory to make its shingled P-Series modules. SunPower also has a small pilot line making its Next Generation Technology (NGT) back-contact cells in Silicon Valley.

Panasonic makes both its Heterojunction Intrinsic Thin Film (HIT) PV cells and modules as well as the Solar Roof product in collaboration with Tesla at the solar “Gigafactory” in Buffalo. Panasonic also manufactures HIT in a variety of other locations globally.