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3 unusual facts about First Solar


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This restructuring process included phasing out operations in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and idling four production lines in Kulim, Malaysia.

In April 2007, the firm announced the construction of a plant in Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Malaysia, which was expanded to six plants in 2010.

For the Sports Stadium Bentegodi, First Solar supplied more than 13,000 thin film modules for a rooftop installation in Verona, Italy.


Cimarron Solar Facility

The Cimarron Solar Facility is a 37 megawatt (MWp) (30 MW AC) photovoltaic solar generating facility in Colfax County, New Mexico, that uses thin film solar panels manufactured by First Solar.


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Cellino San Marco Solar Park

Cellino San Marco Solar Park is a 42.692 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Southern Italy, near Cellino San Marco using 600,000 First Solar modules.

Frank Shuman

Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station in Maadi, Egypt (1912-1913).

Martin Roscheisen

- In 2002, Roscheisen co-founded and became Chairman and CEO of the first solar energy company in Silicon Valley focused on making solar power broadly affordable: Nanosolar.

Mayumana troupe

The video was used a second time as Arava Power Company’s video-invitation to the historic launch of Ketura Sun, the first solar field in Israel.

Solar balloon

In 1972, Dominic Michaelis, a British architect and the inventor of many solar utilities and projects, invented and built the first solar balloon, with a clear external surface and dark, heat-catching internal walls.

Solar bus

Within the Chinese government's program for clean transport sector, China's first solar hybrid buses were put in operation in July 2012 in the city of Qiqihar.

Solar car

In 2008 the event was endorsed by International Solarcar Federation (ISF), Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) making it the first Solar Race to receive endorsement from these 3 organizations.

Solar power in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's first solar power plant was commissioned on October 2, 2011, on Farasan Island.

Tacony, Philadelphia

In 1894, Frank Shuman, inventor of wire glass and a pioneer in solar power twice featured on the cover of Scientific American, built a large inventor's compound on Disston Street and there built the first solar-powered steam engine.