This week, Boviet Solar held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its 2 gigawatt solar panel assembly plant located in Greenville, North Carolina. The factory began fine-tuning its production line a few weeks ago, and many local and state legislators attending the ceremony, as well as Democratic state governor Josh Stein, praised it as a successful example of manufacturing in eastern North Carolina. Xie Zhaochun, Global General Manager of Bovit Solar, and Sienna Cen, President of Bovit Solar USA, also attended the ribbon cutting ceremony.

The solar panel factory has hired 370 employees and will produce single-sided and double-sided solar panels for the US market. Under generous incentives from the state government, Bovit Corporation invested nearly $300 million to renovate an existing 521460 square foot (approximately 51000 square meter) building located in the Indigreen Enterprise Park. The company has also built another 500000 square foot (approximately 47000 square meters) factory nearby, which will produce 3 gigawatts (approximately 3 million kilowatts) of solar cells annually. The battery factory of Bovit Company has broken ground and is scheduled to start production in the second half of 2026. Bovit Company stated that after the completion of the two parks, it will hire 1300 employees in Greenville.

I really wish I could talk more about my experience of visiting a solar panel factory this time, but surprisingly, it has become routine - I never thought that reporting on the US solar panel manufacturing market would say that before. The assembly line is running well, and the workers are also performing their respective duties. Everything is running well, like a well functioning machine, and this is precisely the current situation of rapid expansion of solar energy production capacity in the United States.

I have communicated with many EPC and installation companies who participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony, and they all said the same thing: Boviet is a consistent and trustworthy company, and they have established a good cooperative relationship with Boviet. They are excited about this new factory located in the United States, but they are more looking forward to the production of the battery factory so that they can receive more incentives for localization.

Bo Wei Solar Energy Company was established in Vietnam in 2013 and currently provides support to a local battery and solar panel manufacturing company. Although Bowei Solar Energy Company is not affiliated with Chinese companies, it is currently a subsidiary of Ningbo Bowei Alloy Materials Co., Ltd., a Chinese material manufacturer. About a dozen Bowei Solar employees from Greenville went to Vietnam for six weeks to learn assembly line operations. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, many supervisors and operators led a tour of the factory that was currently in production.

The current solar panel factory was once the location of Denso Manufacturing Company, which produced wiper engines, electric windows, and other automotive components. In 2023, when the company withdrew from Greenville, 475 people were unemployed. Bovit is committed to investing in the Greenville community and has hired many former Denso employees. As battery manufacturing plants require more employees, Bovit will occupy an important position in the city.