Texas-based Vistra (NYSE: VST), an integrated retail electricity and power generation company, plans to build 6 utility-scale solar power plants across Texas. It will buy the solar modules for these power plants from Arizona-based First Solar.
A solar power plant being built in Bordeaux, France, on a former landfill is expected to be the largest “urban” solar PV power plant in Europe. It is using First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) solar modules.
US-based solar manufacturer First Solar announced its first-quarter earnings earlier this month revealing a heavy net-loss and missing earnings expectations due primarily to its US and Japanese Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) business, leading the company to announce a planned restructuring.
US-based solar manufacturer First Solar announced its Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2018 financial results last week, revealing steady quarterly revenue which nevertheless missed the market consensus, and annual revenue which was down 24% on the previous year, revealing underlying concerns even as the company ramps up its Series 6 manufacturing.
The National Renewable Energy Lab is building the first national database of albedo, or reflected light values, to help model the performance of bifacial solar panels, the highest-yield type of panel in the industry thus far. The database is an outgrowth of a large field test of bifacial panels at the lab, which includes a variety of fixed-mount and tracker systems and a mix of bifacial panels from different manufacturers.
CleanTechnica sat down with Andreas Wade, Global Sustainability Director at First Solar, to talk about the what the future holds for solar module recycling.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) signed an agreement with US developers First Solar and NextEra Energy Resources to build 377 megawatts (MW) worth of new solar capacity in Alabama and Tennessee to provide 100% renewable energy to Facebook’s Huntsville, Alabama data center.
American solar PV manufacturer First Solar announced its third-quarter earnings late last week, revealing increased sales and earnings with an escalating order book of 11.3 gigawatts (GW), but investors were not impressed with what they considered a revenue “miss” and shares have slumped nearly 10% off the back of the announcement.
Leading US solar manufacturer First Solar reported its second-quarter earnings in late July, which showed revenue of only $309 million, down $258 million from the previous quarter due to expected lower system and third-party module sales.
Leading US solar manufacturer First Solar published its first-quarter earnings report late last month, depicting a strong start to the year with increased sales of $567 million and the commencement of Series 6 module production in April which, in turn, led to the company’s announcement of a new solar manufacturing plant in Perrysburg, Ohio.
