It has lit up the Budweiser warehouse in Hunts Point with solar energy, helped thousands of homeowners cut their electricity bills, and designed a 12-acre solar field on top of a closed landfill in Rockland County to power nearby towns.

But OnForce Solar has struggled to hire enough workers for its growing business — even though it is in the Bronx, which has a 9.8 percent unemployment rate, the highest in the state. So this fall, the company is partnering with Bronx Community College to create a technology hub that would give emerging companies room to grow and help develop a skilled local work force.

“It’s hard to get people to come to the Bronx,” said Charles Feit, the founder and chief executive of OnForce Solar. “It’s much easier to hire people who live here.”

The technology hub, which would be an extension of Bronx Community College, would house OnForce Solar along with other companies in a 23,000-square-foot former machine shop that is being reimagined with high-speed fiber optics, 320 work stations, conference rooms, a cafe, a rooftop garden and, of course, solar energy. The $7 million project, which will be on Home Street, would be paid for by OnForce Solar.