First Solar pens significant 4GW module supply agreement with Silicon Ranch

• First Solar has authorized a master supply agreement to supply 4GWdc of thin-film solar PV modules to independent power producer (IPP) Silicon Ranch with distributions ranging from 2023 to 2025.

Furthermore, First Solar is to give reusing services for decommissioned solar modules.

Silicon Ranch will certainly gain from enhancements to the producer's variety of CadTel thin film modules made over the course of the agreement. First Solar will also refine the recycling of end-of-life modules from Silicon Ranch, with more than 90% of product would be made use of to build newer modules according to First Solar.

Georges Antoun, primary business police officer at First Solar, claimed: "Lasting module supply agreements with a relied on companion give a crucial hedge versus the rates and supply unpredictabilities that have actually impacted the solar sector over the past few years."

Thus far, the partnership in between Silicon Ranch as well as First Solar, which began in 2015, has seen the module supplier supply greater than 1GW of modules to the IPP, sustaining more than 30 projects in the United States.

During its economic report in March, the producer warned of a "difficult year" in advance with delivery hold-ups, costs and integrity concerns anticipated to tax its 2022 incomes yet continued with its capacity development in Ohio, expected to be commissioned in the initial half of 2023, and a 3.3 GW factory in India by the end of that same year.

The firm expects its global production capacity will certainly reach 16GW in 2024.