With $600 million in facility-specific investment and 564 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears both of AFT's qualifying thresholds ($100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). This project also meets AFT's primary-source verification and physical U.S. manufacturing-footprint requirements.
View full methodology →The energy context.
Manufacturing the equipment of the energy transition — solar modules, transformers, switchgear, electrolyzers, advanced batteries — has become a domestic industrial priority in its own right. The Inflation Reduction Act's §45X advanced-manufacturing production credits make the unit economics workable at US labor costs. Transformer shortages are now a meaningful constraint on the broader power-grid expansion.
At a glance
- Company
- Suniva
- Industry
- Energy
- Location
- Laurens County, South Carolina
- Investment
- $600.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 564
- Status
- Under Construction
- Announced
- Sep 8, 2026
- Expected opening
- October 2027
- Added to tracker
- Sep 23, 2026
Official references
- Suniva SEC 8-K exhibit (Sept 8, 2026) updating the Laurens County facility investment to approximately $600 million https://app.edgar.tools/filing/22701/0001213900-26-098099/ea030487601ex99-1.htm
- SC Commerce: Suniva, Inc. selects Laurens County for first South Carolina manufacturing facility https://www.sccommerce.com/news/suniva-inc-selects-laurens-county-first-south-carolina-manufacturing-facility
- PV-Tech: Suniva raises US$835 million for 4.5GW solar cell facility in South Carolina https://www.pv-tech.org/suniva-raises-us835-million-4-5gw-solar-cell-facility-south-carolina/
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