Town of Ulster is one step closer to creating new jobs!

Supervisor Nick Woerner and Ulster County Administrator Michael Hein pictured above with a solar panel similar to ones that will be manufactured here in the Town of Ulster.


First manufacturing partnership announced for Solar Energy Consortium

MidHudsonNews.Com

February 25, 2008


Congressman Maurice Hinchey today joined officials from The Solar Energy Consortium in Town of Ulster to announce a partnership with global manufacturing firm Prism Solar Technologies, the consortium’s first official industrial joint venture. Prism Technologies is a high-tech research, manufacturing, and marketing enterprise formed in 2005 to manufacture state-of-the-art photovoltaic technology. They will start production soon of holographic optical film cells, as well as photovoltaic modules at their current location at the Center for Innovation on Grant Avenue in the Town of Ulster. Plans are to eventually move to Tech City, where they are already scoping out potential buildings.

Prism Solar CEO Rick Lewandoski said production will begin as soon as machinery is installed, and that could be within just a few weeks. He said shipping of the new product will begin in less than a year. Current customers awaiting the new technology that will be produced by Prism mainly include international businesses, but he said residential and commercial domestic markets are also in their business plan.

Congressman Hinchey (D-Hurley) added that this partnership should bring more than 100 jobs to Ulster County within three years, and over 400 in five years, and will give the county and the Hudson Valley a “much needed economic boost.”

Lewandowski said positions from secretaries to engineers and scientists are already in the application process, and that employment figures in the county have already been affected by the joint venture.

TSEC CEO Vincent Cozzolino called the partnership “one of many to come in the near future” and a “great step for Ulster County, the state of New York, and alternative energy efforts around the globe.”


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