First Solar will build its fifth solar panel factory in the United States The facility will have a nameplate capacity of 3.5 GW, location TBD.
Thin-film solar panel giant First Solar today announced its intention to build a fifth manufacturing facility in the United States. This fifth factory will join the company’s three-factory campus in Northwest Ohio and the under-construction fourth factory in Alabama, eventually allowing First Solar to have more than 14 GW of annual manufacturing capacity in the…