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The Southern Company has acquired a 120MW project in Texas currently being built by First Solar.

The incumbent energy industry must play its part in developing the energy transition instead of “protecting the past”, SolarPower Europe’s president Oliver Schaefer has said.

Swiss developer HopSol has selected First Solar modules for a 5MW project in Namibia, south-west Africa.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling in favour of the US on its complaint against India’s localisation rules for solar equipment, does “not affect the future course of action” that India is considering, Tarun Kapoor, joint secretary of India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has told PV Tech.

The recent extension to the US investment tax credit (ITC) could enable First Solar to shift emphasis and therefore revenue generation to selling its CdTe thin-film modules to third parties rather than directly to PV power plant projects, according to a research note from Deutsche Bank analyst, Vishal Shah.

If you want to understand the strength of the case for solar in Saudi Arabia, examining the country's peak load is a good place to start. First Solar's Osama al Othman explains why the country's power problems are ripe for a solar solution.

First Solar has installed a 684kW pilot PV system for a major agricultural firm in Saudi Arabia.

A direct consequence of the US ITC extension could be a slowdown in PV project completions by key US-centric Photovoltaic Energy Providers (PVEPs), notably First Solar, according to a research note from Baird Equity Research analyst, Ben Kallo.

First Solar and EPC firm Swinerton Renewable Energy (SRE) have launched an O&M partnership in the US.