First Solar Inc Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:54:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Mexico Thin Film Solar Energy More Affordable than Coal Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-mexico-solar-energy-20130206/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-mexico-solar-energy-20130206/#respond Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:54:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32706 The biggest thin film solar panel producer in the world, First Solar Inc. is planning to distribute electricity in New Mexico at a rate of 5.8 cents per kWh. In accord with First Solar’s Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) deal with El Paso Electric Company, the New Mexico grid would be supplied with their 50 MW […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-mexico-solar-energy-20130206/feed/ 0 32706 First Solar Signs Agreements With Major Energy Utilities to Provide Solar Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-signs-agreements-major-energy-utilities-provide-solar-power-20100323/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-signs-agreements-major-energy-utilities-provide-solar-power-20100323/#respond Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:17:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7121 First Solar Inc. has recently announced that it will start working on a huge photovoltaic project called Desert Sunlight in Southern California. The facility will produce 550 MW from solar power, of which 300 MW will be sold to California's Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and 250 MW to Southern California Edison (SCE).

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