First Solar, Inc. is America’s leading PV solar technology and manufacturing company focused on enabling power generation with its uniquely American technology.
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Today, First Solar’s CEO, Mark Widmar, met with Indian Prime Minister @narendramodi. They had a constructive discussion about India’s renewable energy landscape and First Solar’s plans to manufacture in 🇮🇳. @investindia @PMOIndia @MinOfPower @FinMinIndia
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By investing in 🇮🇳, we are enabling the clean energy self-reliance of a major 🇺🇸 ally & strategic partner in the Indo-Pacific, supporting efforts to reduce its reliance on imported solar panels while securing its clean energy supply chain #AtmaNirbharBharat @investindia
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First Solar intends to ‘Make in India’ by investing $684 million in a new, fully vertically integrated photovoltaic thin film solar module manufacturing facility. bit.ly/3lSMoGL #MakeInIndia @investindia
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We're announcing plans to build a new solar module manufacturing facility near our existing Perrysburg, #Ohio flagship plant. The 1.2 gigawatt factory is expected to create 500 new jobs in northwestern Ohio. bit.ly/2KiVJ75 #Solar #SolarFuture
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The first Series 6 module production equipment has arrived! The future of energy is here. #SolarRevolution
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We announced today that we will invest $680 million to expand America’s domestic PV solar manufacturing capacity by 3.3GW. Our third Ohio factory will come online in H1 2023 and increase our annual US capacity to 6GW. #AmericasSolarCompany
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We broke ground on our new 1.2 gigawatt factory today in Perrysburg, Ohio! bit.ly/2sGy35l
#Solar #SolarFuture
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First Solar is deeply disappointed in @POTUS’s decision to exclude bifacial panels from the Section 201 safeguard extension. Read our full statement here.
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As America's Solar Company, we're proud to announce that North Alabama will be the site of our fourth American module manufacturing facility. The 3.5GW facility is expected to come online by 2025. #AmericasSolarCompany bit.ly/3TEfdWh
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First Solar’s technology is forged in the blazing fires of American industry. 🔥 Our Series 7 modules are made with 100% American glass and steel formed in the industrial furnaces of Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Investing in American workers, American manufacturing, and an American supply chain is the key to securing our nation’s energy dominance. We build solar technology. For America.
#AmericasSolarCompany #AmericanSteel #AmericanGlass
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A bird's eye view of this magnificent solar plant to start the week off on the right foot. Any guesses as to what this plant is called?
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#MegawattMonday An aerial view of 550MW of First Solar modules silently at work generating clean energy. Any guesses as to where this project is located?
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First Solar is proud to manufacture #AmericanSolar technology in Alabama! Today we inaugurated our new $1.1 billion Lawrence County manufacturing facility, which adds 3.5 GW of vertically integrated American solar manufacturing capacity—100% free from dependence on Chinese crystalline silicon supply chains. This facility creates over 800 energy technology manufacturing jobs in Lawrence County. These #AmericanSolarWorkers produce our #Series7 solar modules and support our mission to enable our country's energy independence.
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First Solar will build its fifth US manufacturing facility in Louisiana. We are proud that our investment in American manufacturing will create stable, good-paying manufacturing jobs and economic and social value in the state. #AmericasSolarCompany @LEDLouisiana
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When First Solar began commercial production at its original Perrysburg factory in 2002, it employed 150 people and produced 1.5MW of modules. Now it’s expected to have 6,000MW of annual capacity and >2,250 people in 2025. #AmericasSolarCompany #Ohio
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Today, we broke ground on a previously announced manufacturing facility in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, our fifth fully vertically integrated factory in America. The ceremony was attended by @LouisianaGov and other dignitaries from the state.
The facility, believed to be the largest capital investment in the area’s history, represents an investment of approximately $1.1 billion in expanding America’s capacity to produce solar panels.
When completed, the fully vertically integrated manufacturing facility will cover over two million square feet and is designed to transform a sheet of glass into a ready-to-ship Series 7 module in approximately 4.5 hours, producing over one dozen new Louisiana-made solar panels every minute.
This is solar designed, developed, and made in America, for America.
#AmericasSolarCompany #AmericanSolar
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First Solar and Apple Strike Industry’s Largest Commercial Power Deal fslr.co/1FvoTac @tim_cook
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The pleasure was all ours, Mr. Ambassador. We look forward to continuing our dialogue. @SandhuTaranjitS @IndianEmbassyUS
Pleasure to host CEO @FirstSolar Mark Widmar in India House. Discussed progress of First Solar’s investments in #India including manufacturing facility, and the potential to expand bilateral cooperation in clean energy.
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#FeatureFriday: An expansive look at the majestic #DesertSunlight solar power plant
This 550MW plant uses almost nine million #FirstSolar modules to produce enough energy to power about 160,000 California homes.
#AmericanSolar #ThinFilmPV #SolarEnergy
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By expanding America’s solar manufacturing base, and the value chains that support it, we are working to ensure that the US enters the next decade in a position of strength, fully capable of producing the technology it needs to complete its transition to a sustainable energy future.
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In passing the #InflationReductionAct, Congress and @POTUS entrusted our industry with the responsibility of enabling America's clean energy future. Today, we're meeting the moment and intend to invest up to $1.2 bn in America: bit.ly/3AzLk20
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First Solar has produced its 200 Millionth Module! That's enough modules to circle the world 6 times or cover the entire island of #Manhattan. #Solar #SolarEnergy #CleanEnergy #FirstSolar
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We're the 1st thin film PV mod. manufacturer to ship 1 GW (DC) of PV solar capacity to India!fslr.co/1UzUqms
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First Solar CEO, Mark Widmar, issued the following statement on the 2024 Presidential election:
“First Solar congratulates President Trump on his election victory.
We look forward to engaging with him, his administration, and Congress on a shared agenda to ensure a level playing field for American manufacturing and supply chains, safeguard American jobs, and win the energy technology race against China with American innovation.
As we have demonstrated, American solar manufacturing delivers economic and strategic benefits, creating middle-class jobs in communities in Alabama, Louisiana, and Ohio and giving workers the opportunity to invest in their future. Our US manufacturing footprint is supported by an American supply chain. Miners in Wyoming, Utah, and Michigan, glass workers in Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, steelworkers in Ohio, woodworkers in Indiana, truck drivers, railroad workers, and many others around the country contribute to what we do.
As we embark on this next chapter in our nation’s journey, we look forward to continuing to contribute to our country’s prosperity, competitiveness, and security.”
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American power generation technology, manufactured with American materials, in American factories, by American workers. We’re creating value at EVERY step of the way, supporting jobs and economic growth, and bringing prosperity roaring into communities across 🇺🇸. THIS is how we make American manufacturing GREAT, not by ceding solar technology manufacturing to China.
Find out more about First Solar’s investments in 🇺🇸: bit.ly/3FGYfFO
#AmericasSolarCompany #AmericanSolar #45X #MadeInUSA
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Today we celebrated the arrival of the first Series 6 manufacturing equipment to our Vietnam factory! #solarrevolution
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Today's announcement is as much about innovation and jobs as it is about manufacturing. We've invested over $1.5 billion in R&D and will continue to invest in innovation that delivers the next generation of solar tech necessary for our country to lead on the global stage.
.@POTUS often says, “When I think climate, I think jobs.”
Here’s another example just today of him DELIVERING on that conviction.
Decades ago, we invented solar. Bc of @POTUS leadership, that tech will increasingly be MADE IN AMERICA.
Results, folks.👇🏼 finance.yahoo.com/news/first…
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First Solar welcomes @RioTinto's decision to construct a new plant to recover tellurium, a byproduct of copper smelting, in UT. This facility creates a new domestic source of a critical mineral essential in the fight against climate change. (1/3) bit.ly/38leYuG
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Ohio is now home to First Solar’s new distribution center. With 1.2 million sq. ft. of warehouse space, our new facility processes approximately 35,000 solar modules each day, supplying solar projects nationwide with Ohio-made solar technology. It solidifies the Buckeye state’s position as the home of #AmericanSolar, joining First Solar’s three manufacturing facilities as well as our recently opened Jim Nolan Center for Solar Innovation in Perrysburg. It also creates 100 new jobs for #AmericasSolarWorkers.
#AmericasSolarCompany #FirstSolar
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Nothing like a beautiful solar project for some #MondayMotivation. Any guesses as to where this project is located?
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First Solar today broke ground on a new Ohio factory at a ceremony attended by US Labor Secretary @SecMartyWalsh, Ohio Lt. Gov. @JonHusted, and US Representatives @boblatta and @RepMarcyKaptur
#AmericasSolarCompany #FirstSolar
#SolarMadeInUSA
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Thank you, @POTUS. We are investing in
✅American ingenuity and innovation
✅Responsibly-made American solar technology that meaningfully fights climate change
✅Good-paying, stable American jobs
We are America's Solar Company, and we are proud to be investing in America.
Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we're creating thousands of good-paying jobs right here in America.
But don't take my word for it: take Corning and First Solar’s, who both announced new factories today.
It's our plan in action.
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Desalination in the Middle East with solar PV can save 320 billion liters of diesel per year. #worldwaterday
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The American manufacturing renaissance is underway. @FirstSolar's $1.1B Alabama factory—its fourth in the US—brought jobs roaring back into Lawrence County. A revitalized Lawrence County now plays a proud role in unleashing American energy dominance with solar technology manufactured in Alabama.
Tabitha Pace, President, Economic Development for Lawrence County, talks about how the new factory marked a turning point for the community.
See how we're investing in America - bit.ly/44NcKCk
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Congratulations @Genex_Power for achieving generation at the Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro Project in Australia #Series4
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From brownfield to award-winning project, this Arkansas #DistributedGeneration project has a story to tell!
Contact our team today to upgrade your DG project to the next level. bit.ly/3CDsRBH
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We’re proud to be powering a circular solar future by recovering more than 90% of the materials from the PV modules we recycle. #AmericaRecycles #CircularEconomy #solarpv
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First Solar is acquiring Evolar, a European leader in perovskite technology. We are investing not just in First Solar’s future, but the future of solar energy. bit.ly/3BjXBIx
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#ICYMI, In June, we announced that we will invest $680 million to expand America’s domestic PV solar manufacturing capacity by 3.3GW. Our third Ohio factory will come online in H1 2023 and increase our annual US capacity to 6GW. #AmericasSolarCompany #LookingBack #EndofYear
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First Solar’s factories in Ohio, the largest #SolarPV mfg footprint in the Western Hemisphere, are a marvel of modern manufacturing. #ManufacturingMarvels gives viewers an inside peek - #Series6 production. This is solar #MadeInAmerica.
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First Solar was the proud winner of The Smarter E Award at @Intersolar 2018 for demonstrating how renewables can deliver essential reliability services for a low carbon grid.
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Discover the major aspects that affect a #solar plant's cost per kilowatt-hour. fslr.co/1NaXld3
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Analysis conducted by the Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center for First Solar maps the impact of high-value manufacturing on America’s economy. The numbers, expected to scale with First Solar’s US nameplate manufacturing capacity, speak for themselves: fully vertically integrated solar manufacturing delivers jobs, economic growth, and economic output. This is the real value of solar technology made in America for America, with materials sourced from businesses nationwide and not simply assembled here using imported components.
Read the full report: bit.ly/42S1d1g
#AmericanSolar #AmericanSolarWorkers #SolarJobs #EconomicImpact
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#ICYMI #ResponsibleSolar is about maximizing material recovery at the end of a solar module’s useful life through industry leading, high-value PV recycling services. First Solar’s recycling process recovers more than 90% of module materials for reuse. #recyclingrenewablesweek
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Research by @NREL and #FirstSolar has produced highly accurate, real-time estimates of available aggregate peak power that a curtailed solar power plant can deliver to support the broader needs of the grid. @pvmagazineusa
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First Solar is the first PV company to receive the new 62941 IEC Technical Standard, under the IECRE (IEC System for Certification to Standards Relating to Equipment for Use in Renewable Energy Applications) conformity assessment system. Read more: bit.ly/2LbyDiO
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The passage of the #InflationReductionAct is a victory for 🇺🇸. It's an opportunity to:
✅ Achieve energy security with responsible solar
✅ Create jobs and economic value where needed most
✅ Facilitate cycles of innovation
Read Mark Widmar's statement here.
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Our CEO, Mark Widmar, talks to @greentechmedia on running a profitable Solar business in today's uncertain times. bit.ly/2qdoUNS
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First Solar has expanded manufacturing capacity in the US and expects to reach 14 gigawatts of annual nameplate capacity by 2026. Each panel proves it’s possible to out-innovate and out-compete China by manufacturing in America, for America, using American materials. We celebrate the American solar worker and the extensive value chains which span the United States and enable the country’s energy transition.
Learn more: bit.ly/3uY09w0
#AmericasSolarWorkers #AmericanSolar #FirstSolar
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Desalination can help 2.8B people facing water scarcity. #Solar can help to decarbonize this energy intense process. fslr.co/1RNmTmZ
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First Solar's technology embodies sustainability & a responsibility towards people & the planet. Our technology is produced with a zero-tolerance policy towards forced labor & features the industry's lowest carbon & water footprint. bit.ly/2XBwCaO #ResponsibleSolar
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First Solar is proud to sponsor the @UMSolarCarTeam as they race to victory at the @WorldSolarChlg, the world's premier solar-powered car race, this October. Our engineers recently met with participating students at our Ohio manufacturing facility. #FSxUofM #AmericasSolarCompany
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We were thrilled to have @SecMartyWalsh, @JonHusted, @boblatta, and @RepMarcyKaptur join us to break ground on our third Ohio factory! Here were some of the highlights. #AmericasSolarCompany
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American solar manufacturing creates steady, good-paying jobs. We intend to have over 3,000 direct employees in four states by 2025 while supporting an estimated 15,000 indirect and induced jobs across the country. We're proud to do our part.
Just weeks after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, @FirstSolar has announced investing $1 billion in a new solar panel manufacturing facility.
Clean energy jobs and clean energy manufacturing, here at home. This is @POTUS' vision in action. cnbc.com/2022/08/30/first-so…
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First Solar supports @RenewableBuyers as they work to ensure the #BuildBackBetter clean energy provisions succeed in accelerating grid #decarbonization. bit.ly/3zkg58g
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Photosol has chosen @FirstSolar PV modules for 14 projects totaling 106.5 MW. #Solar #France #cleanenergy
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American steel forms the backbone of First Solar’s US-made Series 7 panels. The transformation from iron ore to steel rolls to finished back rails all happens within a 100-mile radius of First Solar’s Ohio factories: the steel is made in Cleveland, processed in Delta, and fabricated into back rails in Bowling Green.
Learn more: bit.ly/3NsAq4M
#AmericasSolarWorkers #AmericanSteel #InvestingInAmerica #FirstSolar
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Driving a circular economy will be critical to the PV industry’s long-term resource resilience. bit.ly/2qwFcmt #recycling #solar
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Great news! The #ZacapaSolar project won @Solar_Builder's Project of the Year: Editor’s Choice Award. The project is powered by 9MW of First Solar technology. 🏆🏆
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Climate change poses one of society’s greatest challenges. Where and how a PV module and its components are manufactured significantly impacts its environmental profile. Every year, First Solar products are displacing more than 10 times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions we emit through our global operations and supply chain. Learn more: bit.ly/47xRUFF
#ResponsibleSolar #SustainabilityReport
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Find out more about how we use recycling to create a regenerative source of our semiconductor:
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#Recycle #Sustainability
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Coober Pedy, the backdrop for #MadMax, received its 1st shipment of @FirstSolar modules as part of a hybrid energy project. #renewable
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Who says solar energy and snow don't mix? Here's an aerial view of a #DistributedGeneration project featuring our #Series6 modules in our home state of Ohio.
Working on a DG project? Contact us today for a quote! bit.ly/3cTIDhz
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An in depth look at how solar has become compettive with fossil fuels - #Solar fslr.co/1QyuyEr
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These are #AmericasSolarWorkers. Since 1999, First Solar has called northwest Ohio home, producing American-designed and -made thin film solar panels in what is today the largest fully vertically integrated solar panel manufacturing complex outside of China. By strategically building and sustaining US supply chains, First Solar is investing in America and enabling growth and jobs not just for the solar industry but for other US industries, such as glass, steel, mining, and transportation, to name a few. This is #AmericanSolar. #TheFactory
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ALT Americas Solar Workers
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Shams Ma'an Solar Plant now accounts for approx. 1% of Jordan's total energy generation capacity. #FirstSolar piped.video/watch?v=_h2InF7p…
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First Solar & 15 other solar manufacturers wrote to @POTUS reinforcing our commitment to growing a domestic solar supply chain. With the right policies, such as @ossoff's #SEMA, our energy transition can be powered by American solar
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First Solar is excited to be attending Intersolar South America. See what our new Series 6 module looks like at the Stinorland Brasil, booth F141 and Soltec, booth D121. #Series6
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Ohio utility-scale solar in on the rise and First Solar is pleased to be part of this growth. #AmericasSolarCompany
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First Solar achieves another record cell conversion efficiency rate reaching 22.1% cell efficiency! fslr.co/1VBLolD
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Mark Widmar, CEO, Jason Dymbort, General Counsel, and Samantha Sloan, Vice President of Global Policy, represented First Solar's associates at today's @WhiteHouse event celebrating the #InflationReductionAct, hosted by @POTUS and @VP. Read Mark's message: bit.ly/3RHNPqi
ALT (L-R) Jason Dymbort, General Counsel, First Solar; Samantha Sloan, Vice President of Global Policy, First Solar; and Mark Widmar, CEO, First Solar.
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.@NSGPilkingtonNA fired up the furnace at its new glass factory in Luckey, #Ohio. Its first new glass float furnace in the United States since 1980 has created 150 new jobs and is a direct result of First Solar's expanded American mfg. footprint in Ohio. #AmericasSolarCompany
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First Solar secured a spot in the top 100 on Corporate Knights' 20th Annual Global 100 list, showcasing our dedication to leading the world’s sustainable energy future. Corporate Knights assessed 6,733 companies based on 25 quantitative key performance indicators to identify the world’s top 100 companies doing well by doing good. #ResponsibleSolar
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Final panel installed at Nyngan Solar Plant, the largest #solar project in Australia fslr.co/1K0q9V7
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Sunny scenes from the Sun Streams Complex in Maricopa County, Arizona with our partners at @LongroadTweet. These projects are expected to generate over $40 million for Arizona’s schools via a long-term lease with the @AZStateLand, and over $5 million in tax revenue.
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First Solar recently achieved a new single-junction CdTe cell efficiency record of 22.3% based on its novel CuRe technology platform. The new record, measured and certified by @NREL signals incremental conversion efficiency potential that surpasses First Solar’s prior core semiconductor record cell. Combined with expected improvements to temperature coefficient and long-term degradation, the CuRe platform is expected to improve lifetime energy entitlement by more than 6%. #LifetimeEnergy #FirstSolar
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Today, First Solar announced that it has entered into a 15-year, captive Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with @CleantechSolar , a leading provider of renewable energy solutions to corporations in India and Southeast Asia.
Under the agreement, Cleantech Solar will construct 150 MW of photovoltaic (PV) solar and 16.8 MW of wind-generating assets in Tamil Nadu, India, supplying approximately 7.3 GWh of clean electricity to First Solar’s new 3.3 GW vertically integrated solar manufacturing facility, also located in Tamil Nadu. The solar project will utilize First Solar’s India-made Series 7 thin film solar panels. bit.ly/3H4I5Dg
#MakeInIndia #ResponsibleSolar
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Friday thoughts: Is the grass really greener on the other side? Tune in below for some #SheepThrills alongside our #Series4 modules in @SiliconRanchCo's Providence, Tennessee solar project. A big thank you to Trent Hendricks from #CabriejoRanch for the footage!
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Electricity is the lifeblood of America.
Once manufactured, #FirstSolar ships its solar panels to sites around the country where engineers and construction workers install them in large-scale solar power plants using components like mounting structures, cabling, and inverters, often sourced from other American companies. bit.ly/46yXEOX
#AmericasSolarWorkers #AmericanPowerPlants #InvestingInAmerica
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See @NEXTracker in our #spicon booth 745 and watch now to see why the two are a great combination.
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It is with honor that First Solar accepts the @pvmagazine 2019 Sustainability Award. We are dedicated to leading the world’s sustainable energy future. #lowestcarbon #cleanersolar #circulareconomy
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#FeelgoodFriday: Summer scenes from sunny, southern Georgia. This might be the cutest O&M crew we've seen yet. 🐑
Thanks to Trent Hendricks for the footage!
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First Solar is proud to power the largest operational utility-scale solar power plant in Zambia with its high-performance thin film modules. The Bangweulu project was developed by Neoen and First Solar, under the World Bank’s Scaling Solar program. bit.ly/2WdOvHn
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American Solar is a marvelous thing – join Energy Marvels for a peek inside our Ohio factory, soon to be expanded along with a new R&D facility and the quality jobs that accompany our growth. #AmericanSolar
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Relax and (literally) recharge at the @SIGardens' #RechargeStations, donated by @FirstSolar as part of the @SmithsonianAIB #TheFUTURES exhibition. #AmericanSolar workers from CA to OH made it possible. bit.ly/3KAAlZT
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First Solar inaugurated its new $1.1 billion fully vertically integrated thin-film solar manufacturing facility in Lawrence County, Alabama this week. The facility, which adds 3.5 gigawatts (GW) of fully vertically integrated nameplate solar manufacturing capacity in the United States, is expected to create over 800 new energy technology manufacturing jobs in the state.
#AmericanSolar #AmericasSolarWorkers
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First Solar has expanded manufacturing capacity in the US and expects to reach 14 gigawatts of annual nameplate capacity by 2026. Each panel proves it’s possible to out-innovate and out-compete China by manufacturing in America, for America, using American materials. We celebrate the American solar worker and the extensive value chains which span the United States and enable the country’s energy transition.
Learn more: bit.ly/3NsAq4M
#AmericasSolarWorkers #AmericanSolar #FirstSolar
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The #FirstSolar San Francisco office just got an upgrade! Check out our all new #Series6 module installation. Thanks to our #ecosystem partner #ModuRack who supplied the mounting structure for the setup.
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HopSol chose @FirstSolar's PV modules for Namibia's largest grid-integrated #solar plant. fslr.co/1UucwVm
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Thinking big: #FirstSolar is the sole American company among the world’s 10 largest solar manufacturers. Proudly American, First Solar powers communities, #innovation, and #decarbonization with #cleanersolar technology designed in #America. @pvmagazine: bit.ly/2SyLtwo
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