For years Texas has watched as solar developers flock to greener pastures in California and Arizona where state subsidies and high power prices have crated a solar boom.The announcement Wednesday that First Solar, one of the worlds largest solar companies, was building a spraw...... [More]

With an initial plan to invest around US$100 million, First Solar said it would build PV power plants in the booming Japanese market, both directly and with Japanese companies in partnership. Japan has not previously been a target market for First Solar with its CdTe thin-film...... [More]

US giant First Solar became the worlds largest engineering, procurement and construction contractor (EPC) last year, according to a report from IHS Research.The study also revealed a shift in the global EPC rankings, with US and Asian companies supplanting their previously dom...... [More]

First Solar today announced the release of its most advanced thin-film photovoltaic module, the Series 3 FS-392, which is rated at 92.5 watts.The new FS-392 module maintains all the existing IEC certifications and UL listings for the Series 3 family, including UL listing for 10...... [More]

First Solar, the Arizona-based thin film photovoltaic company best known for building large utility scale power plants in the California desert and the Carrizo Plain, may be easing its way out of the large-scale solar business. In an interview in an Australian trade journal, a...... [More]

Shares of First Solar Inc rose 8 percent after the company installed an additional 100 megawatts in less than 12 weeks at an Arizona solar plant.The plant, which is expected to be completed in 2014, reached a 100 MW milestone in April.First Solar declined to say if the plant wo...... [More]