Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar met with employees of Abound Solar, an innovative solar panel company that has created more than 200 ‘green jobs’ in two years and expects to double employment by next year. Abound Solar Inc., which carries out commercial scale manufacturing of next-generation thin-film solar photovoltaic modules, expects to have 420 employees by 2010. At capacity, the plant manufactures 3 million modules per year – enough to provide renewable energy to 40,000 homes.