First Solar inks 2.4 GW supply deal with Intersect

• Modules will be supplied to developer's US pipe of projects

First Solar has reached a PV supply arrangement with Intersect Power for a significant pipeline of solar projects throughout the US.

The firm will certainly supply 2.4 GW of high-performance advanced slim film PV modules in between 2024 as well as 2026, including in previous orders from Intersect completing 4.1 GW.

The modules will certainly be deployed at Intersect Power's solar, storage, and green hydrogen projects coming online throughout the USA in between 2025 and 2027.

A huge proportion are expected to be generated in First Solar's Northwest Ohio manufacturing complex.

Intersect Power chief executive officer Sheldon Kimber claimed: "Our continuous partnership with First Solar has been essential in swiftly scaling our organization to satisfy our vision and also dependably providing our customers value as well as performance to support their decarbonisation goals.

" We look forward to bringing this large-scale portfolio to operation, and also developing good-paying, American jobs in both building and construction as well as manufacturing with First Solar's domestically-produced modules."

First Solar is investing $680m in broadening America's domestic PV solar production capacity by 3.3 GW each year, by constructing its third United States production center in Lake Township, Ohio.

The new facility is anticipated to be commissioned in the first fifty percent of 2023 and also when completely functional will certainly scale the firm's Northwest Ohio footprint to a total yearly capacity of 6GW.