Featured in Solar says… – 08-2017

“Our path is one that we are highly confident in.”

Thin film: Mark Widmar has been at the helm of U.S. CdTe producer and project developer First Solar for a little over 12 months. During that time he has made the big call to skip the company’s Series 5 module and go to the large format Series 6. But what does the future hold for its project development business in the time of change? pv magazine spoke to the First Solar CEO to find out.

By

Jonathan Gifford

09 Aug 2017

First Solar was one of the first module manufacturers to shift its strategy towards developing utility-scale solar projects in-house. Can you take me back to the latter stages of the previous decade to explain the thinking about that move?Strategically we were trying to effectively achieve two things when we made that decision. We were in …

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