Ubiquity Solar is a leader in solar PV technology with a strong, intellectual property protected technology portfolio that spans multiple applications. Our focus is in selling advanced products that deliver value to our customers whether in the fast-growing power generation business or for the aerospace/transportation markets. Ubiquity is focused on delivering technology that changes what is possible with solar energy.

Ubiquity has a vertically integrated approach to manufacturing with current manufacturing operations in the State of New York and plans for in a second U.S. facility.

History 

Our team has been involved with the PV industry for over 25 years. We started in PV in February 1996 by providing electronic manufacturing consulting to a company that was leading the project to install PV at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. We then founded ARISE Technologies Corporation (“ARISE”) as a wholly owned subsidiary in March 1997 and took ARISE public in July 2003. ARISE had a PV cell fab (a fab is a common name for a PV cell or semiconductor fabrication and manufacturing operation) in Germany that had a capital investment of €50M, developed the Gen 1 polysilicon process at a cost of C$34M which included C$6.4M of funding from Sustainable Development Technologies Canada (“SDTC”) and was a leading Canadian PV systems integrator. 

Ubiquity separated from ARISE in September 2011 and subsequently acquired the remaining ARISE assets, including all the R&D data in November 2012, after ARISE went bankrupt in April 2012. At that time, most of ARISE’s PV cell customers and much of the Western PV manufacturing industry went bankrupt when China started to dominate the PV industry around 2011. The ARISE experience along with the experience that our team had at a several other solar companies has laid the foundation for Ubiquity.

An important growth catalyst in our business plan was our transaction with Utica Leaseco LLC (“Utica”) on March 1, 2021 (“the transaction”).

Following the transaction close, the Utica Assets were relocated from Sunnyvale, California, to Ubiquity’s 800,000 sq. ft. leased manufacturing facility in Endicott, New York. The transaction aligns with our long-term strategy of developing a tandem III-V Si PV cell technology (III-V Si-PV) by combining our proprietary silicon technology with the III-V technology developed at Alta.