The people of Greater Pittsburgh make things, and we make them to last.

This expertise makes us a natural provider of new technologies and component parts for solar power. Leveraging our long-term expertise in materials science from chemistry to glass, local startups are pioneering new approaches to photovoltaics, and manufacturers, including Flabeg, with the first solar mirror manufacturing plant in the U.S. located in the region, are creating components to harness solar power.

Exciting new photovoltaic technologies are spinning out of our universities and into the market. And there’s more to come.