In A Win For The Robots, First Solar To Open New US Factory
How Trump’s new solar tariff enabled First Solar to leverage its thin film PV technology over the competition, company plans gigantic new factory in Ohio.
How Trump’s new solar tariff enabled First Solar to leverage its thin film PV technology over the competition, company plans gigantic new factory in Ohio.
American solar PV manufacturer First Solar announced this week that it would be raising its shipping guidance for Full Year 2018 after the Section 201 case increased demand and excluded the company’s Series 4 modules from the 30% tariff.
Talking to investors in its Q4 2017 Earnings Call on February 22, First Solar CEO Mark Widmar floated the possibility of expanding the company’s US manufacturing capacity as a direct result of Donald Trump’s corporate tax reforms.
US-based solar manufacturer First Solar announced its Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 financial results late last week and it was a mixed bag of results, beating earnings expectations but missing on revenue while taking a multi-million dollar hit due to US tax reform.
Leading American solar manufacturer First Solar has announced this week it will proceed with the development and construction of a 200 megawatt solar farm in Twiggs County, Georgia, which was first awarded to the company as part of a 525 megawatt Request for Proposals by Georgia Power’s Renewable Energy Development Initiative, or REDI.
Australia’s first large-scale solar farm co-located with a wind farm was formally opened this month, the first of more than a dozen projects likely to follow suit within the next few years.
8point3 Energy Partners, the yieldco set up in 2015 by First Solar and SunPower, has entered into a Plan of Merger and Purchase Agreement with CD Clean Energy and Infrastructure V JV, LLC, an investment fund managed by Capital Dynamics, in a deal expected to represent about $977 million in equity value and about $1.7 billion in enterprise value.
Indian companies continue to push for innovation with an endeavor to meet the highly ambitious renewable energy target set by the government. The conducive policy and regulatory regime for the development of renewable energy in the country has reaped the first solar-powered carport.
The US Solar Energy Industries Association has this week unveiled its blueprint plan to put America first on economic growth, jobs, manufacturing, and national security, while maintaining the solar industry’s booming growth.
American solar PV manufacturer First Solar released a flurry of announcements on Tuesday, first among them the unveiling of its first functional Series 6 thin film solar PV module at the company’s Ohio production line.