FSLR's thin-film focus, integrated manufacturing and U.S. capacity expansion shape its cost edge and long-term solar module competitiveness.

First Solar Inc. inaugurated its new $1.1 billion manufacturing facility in Iberia Parish, marking a major expansion of U.S.-based solar production. The plant, which employs more than 700 workers and ...

When Georges Antoun came to Louisiana from Lebanon in the early 1980s, he needed money. The country was entering an oil crisis, and cities along the Gulf Coast — especially places like Lafayette that ...

In a perspective paper in Joule, a group of U.S. researchers described technology and supply chain efforts required to reach worldwide annual cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar PV capacity of 100 GW by ...

First Solar’s fifth operating US manufacturing facility creates over 800 new manufacturing jobs Facility forecast to raise Iberia Parish’s GDP by 4.4% in first full year of operations at capacity ...

Net sales for the period reached US$1.1 billion, the majority of which came from increased sales of its cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film modules. Image: First Solar. US cadmium telluride (CdTe) ...

Korea University researchers have developed a machine-learning framework that predicts solar cell efficiency from wafer quality, enabling early wafer screening and optimized production paths. Using ...