Heliogen Announces New Southern California Manufacturing Facility
23 February 2022 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
New facility in Long Beach to produce
heliostats for company’s modular, concentrated solar energy
projects
Heliogen, Inc. (“Heliogen” or the “Company”) (NYSE: HLGN), a
leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy, today
announced it has begun site preparation and setup at its first
full-scale manufacturing facility, located in Long Beach,
California. Production lines are expected to become operational in
the third quarter of 2022.
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Heliogen's full-scale manufacturing
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The state-of-the-art facility will include assembly lines, an
expansive test facility, and rapid development center for the
production of heliostats and other components in Heliogen’s
concentrated solar energy system. Heliogen leverages AI-enabled
heliostats to efficiently generate higher temperatures than
possible with traditional concentrated solar technology. The
generation of higher temperatures – capable of achieving in excess
of 1,000 degrees Celsius – allows the company’s solar technology to
efficiently store heat, reduce or eliminate intermittency of
renewably generated energy, and cost-effectively replace fossil
fuels with sunlight for a range of industrial processes.
Heliostats from the Long Beach production facility are expected
to be utilized in Heliogen’s anticipated first commercial project
in California.
“We believe our state-of-the-art heliostat manufacturing
facility is the world’s first and only purpose-built facility for
high-volume heliostat production,” said Bill Gross, Chief Executive
Officer of Heliogen. “Our ability to manufacture Heliogen
heliostats in the facility enables a significant cost advantage
compared to earlier heliostat production, which was done in the
construction field under less controlled conditions. Our modular
plant design, together with our patented software control system,
supports our mission to cost-effectively deliver near 24/7
carbon-free energy in the form of heat, power, or green hydrogen
fuel at scale – for the first time in history.”
Heliogen’s Long Beach manufacturing facility is being led by
Andy Lambert, Chief Production and Supply Chain Officer, formerly
of SpaceX and BMW, where he successfully built large-scale,
high-quality, automated production lines for products that work
outdoors with long lifetimes and high reliability.
“Moving ahead with the Long Beach manufacturing facility
represents a significant step forward in bringing sustainable
energy solutions to heavy industry,” said Andy Lambert. “With some
of the country’s best and brightest talent, key suppliers, and
access to an expansive infrastructure and logistics network,
Heliogen is confident that Long Beach will emerge as a hub for
green energy manufacturing solutions.”
The 90,000 square foot facility, located in the Douglas Park
Campus adjacent to Long Beach Airport, will contribute to more than
250 full-time jobs across Heliogen’s California locations, by 2025.
The Long Beach location offers Heliogen an optimal location for its
manufacturing facility due to its proximity to a skilled labor
pool, including a large population of U.S. military veterans and a
number of technical schools. In addition, the site’s access to
major highways enables easy transit of finished goods to customer
locations in the Southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and
to the Port of Los Angeles for international customers.
Individuals interested in applying for jobs at Heliogen,
including at the Long Beach facility, can find more information and
open roles at https://heliogen.com/careers/.
About Heliogen
Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company focused on
eliminating the need for fossil fuels in heavy industry and
powering a sustainable future. The company’s AI-enabled, modular
concentrated solar technology aims to cost-effectively deliver near
24/7 carbon-free energy in the form of heat, power, or green
hydrogen fuel at scale – for the first time in history. Heliogen
was created at Idealab, the leading technology incubator founded by
Bill Gross in 1996. For more information about Heliogen, please
visit Heliogen.com
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