Headquartered in Bedford, MA, 1366 is committed to providing innovative, production-worthy processes, materials, and machines that will drive the cost of solar electricity to parity with electricity from coal. In pursuit of this mission, 1366 Technologies has proposed to build approximately 110,000 square feet of state-of-the-art photovoltaic wafer manufacturing space with a location yet to be determined.

At this stage, the program entails infrastructure to support a 250 MW production output. The anticipated process flow includes: pre-growth, growth getter, getter emitter removal, texturing, QC packaging, and analytics stations with an anticipated 7,500 wafer/hr production rate. The program will include administrative space, clean manufacturing areas, chemical waste/storage areas, central utility building, Warehousing, Material/Finished Goods, Growth, and Post Growth/Texturing Areas. Avid’s design activities included the design and implementation of a fully operational pilot facility as well as concept design for the 1-GW facility.