First Solar Inc. has chosen Lawrence County in Alabama as the placement for its fourth American photovoltaic photo voltaic module manufacturing facility. The brand new manufacturing facility is a part of a beforehand introduced funding in scaling First Photo voltaic’s American manufacturing footprint to over 10 GW DC by 2025.
The deliberate manufacturing facility in Lawrence County’s Mallard Fox Industrial Park represents an funding of roughly $1.1 billion and is predicted to be commissioned by 2025, with a deliberate annual capability of three.5 GW DC. The brand new absolutely vertically built-in facility will be part of three factories in Ohio, together with one that’s scheduled to come back on-line within the first half of 2023, to kind a part of First Photo voltaic’s expanded home manufacturing footprint.
“First Photo voltaic is a world-class producer, and its photo voltaic modules are poised to play an more and more necessary position in U.S. vitality self-sufficiency,” says Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. “I’m thrilled to see the corporate’s progress mission headed to Lawrence County as a result of I do know it can create good jobs and have a significant financial affect on this rural area.”
Designed and developed at its analysis and improvement (R&D) facilities in California and Ohio, First Photo voltaic’s superior skinny movie PV modules set trade benchmarks for high quality, sturdiness, reliability, design, and environmental efficiency.
“The passage of the Inflation Discount Act of 2022 has firmly positioned America on the trail to a sustainable vitality future,” states Mark Widmar, CEO of First Photo voltaic. “This facility, together with its sister factories in Ohio, will kind a part of the commercial basis that helps guarantee this transition is powered by American innovation and ingenuity.”
