Tennessee Solar Symposium
Thank you for a successful first ever Tennessee Solar Symposium. For details on the event, click here.
To download some of the presentations that you heard at the event, please see the links below:
Tom Nicholas (PDF 13.2MB)- Stacey Patterson (PDF 0.8MB)
- Kelly Tiller (PDF 1MB)
- To educate Tennessee’s economic development community on the current and future role of the solar/clean energy sector including growth projections, challenges and concerns.
- To educate Tennessee’s economic development community on the state’s clean energy sector and how Tennessee is poised to attract more investment in the sector.
- To attract consultants, private companies and key research and development institutions to the event with the goal of gaining further investment in the industry.
- To continue to position Tennessee as a state leading manufacturing and innovations in the solar and clean energy sectors.
- To bring more investment and jobs in the solar and clean energy sectors to Tennessee.
Solar Means Tennessee Jobs
Solar energy has quickly become a target industry for Tennessee’s economic development efforts. Positioned to be a leader and originator of the next great exports of solar energy products, technology and research, Tennessee is already heavily invested in job creation and economic incentives to major solar companies.
Solar panel component manufacturers such as Hemlock Semiconductor and Wacker Chemie will invest more than $3 billion in Tennessee, initially employing 1,000 workers with the potential for at least 1,000 more.
With a ready workforce, dedicated industrial megasites and central location, many solar and clean energy companies already call Tennessee home, including solar panel suppliers such as Sharp in Memphis, Shoals Technologies Group in Gallatin, AGC Flat Glass in Kingsport; wind tower manufacturer SIAG Aerisyn, L.C.C. in Chattanooga; and the leading supplier to the world’s clean energy manufacturers Alstom Power.
Given the potential growth of the field, it is only natural that we expand on Tennessee’s investment and better equip our state to attract more solar industry jobs.