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Another First Solar executive will be departing the company soon, according to an 8-K report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. John Gaffney, the thin-film PV firm's current executive VP/corporate secretary, will end his tenure as of Dec. 1. Former EVP John Carrington left the company in late August, shortly before Robert Gillette was named as new CEO. Gaffney has been in charge of First Solar's sustainable development and environmental affairs, and has also headed its legal and corporate development departments.

An 18-acre solar garden has been dedicated adjacent to Mars Chocolate's North America headquarters in Hackettstown, NJ. The 2.15MW (DC) power plant--which is comprised of more than 28,000 ground-mounted First Solar thin-film PV modules--is said to be the largest solar energy facility installed in New Jersey by a food manufacturing plant and the first project completed by Public Service Enterprise Group's PSEG Solar Source subsidiary.