Sunshine state Florida, $1000/y savings by solar water heating
Post date: Feb 7, 2011 7:20:58 AM
Green economy Manufacturing Florida
Alternate Energy Technologies: An alternative energy success story in Jacksonville
Westside company manufactures all-American alternative energy products.
Everything is American-made
We're very proud of that said Billy Byrom aetsolar.com
Billy Byrom,
manager partner of AET manufactures Solar thermal panels for water heating on a 67,000-square-foot facility with 60 workers.
Breakthrough in 1985 40% tax credit
Americans got a 40 percent tax credit to install solar-powered water heating systems in their homes in 1985
Caribbean islands
Over the next 20 years, much of the company's business came from Caribbean islands and other areas that had weak or nonexistent electrical power grids
Thermafin
With the move to its new facility under construction in Green Cove Springs, AET plans to increase its workforce from 60 to 145. Its new facility is to be 60,000 square feet with 6,000 square feet of administrative office space, Allain said.
Complete US manufacturing
The AET company does not purchase anything
from foreign suppliers.
Other U.S. solar manufacturers are really just assembly operations that put together components fabricated in foreign factories.
source: jacksonville.com/business