Maxeon, Hardt Electric Leading Solar Installation at HQ for Chest Physicians Association

The 90-year-old American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) is having solar energy installed on-site to help power its headquarters in Illinois.

Maxeon Solar Technologies is supplying panels for the rooftop solar project at the CHEST HQ campus in Glenview. The distributed energy system is projected to generate about 341,000 kWh of carbon-free electricity per year, offsetting nearly 30% of the facility’s consumption.

Hardt Electric was hired as the CHEST solar project’s engineering, procurement and construction primary contractor. Hardt designed the system and is installing 560 Maxeon panels.

"Our panels capture more sun in low light conditions—creating more energy earlier in the morning, on cloudy days, and later in the evening,” said Michael Hynes, Business Development Manager at Maxeon, in a press statement. “And Maxeon panels maintain their power advantage over time with the industry's lowest degradation rate, which allows the company to have an industry-leading, 40-year warranty that important installations like CHEST can depend on to produce clean energy for decades."

The American College of Chest Physicians, founded in 1935, is an association of physicians and non-physician support specialists in pulmonology, critical care medicine and sleep medicine. It has more than 19,000 members nationwide.

Maxeon Solar Technologies is headquartered in Singapore globally and in San Jose, California in the Americas. Five years ago, it was spun off from SunPower Corp., which later filed for bankruptcy protection.

Last year, global financial struggles led the company to announce it was selling non-U.S. assets to focus on solar development in the Americas. So far it is standing by its two-year-old announcement of building a $1 billion manufacturing facility in New Mexico and perhaps starting production as early as next year.