By: Green Ridge Solar

Green Ridge Solar — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:35:32 +0000

Fantastic to see more solar manufacturing coming back to the United States. The US has HUGE potential for solar production and becoming the center and leader in solar panel manufacturing. Let’s build EVEN MORE solar panel manufacturing plants for our renewable energy future!

By: Solarman

Solarman — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:10:13 +0000

I find this newer large footprint series 7 product to be robust with a stated 0.3% LID rate (YOY), a 30 year linear performance warranty and a PTC at 800 watts per square meter that still produces 404 watts output from the 540 watt panels. Apparently the IRA has moved up First Solar’s time line for manufacturing facilities. I understand even before these announcements, First Solar was working with the DOE to see if they can find a way to make tandem solar PV cells that would use two different bandgap chemistries like perhaps a Perovskite layered with the CdTe or two Perovskite layers fused between the glass encasement used in the panel series 6, 7 units. This maybe the way for the U.S. to beat China at the solar PV ‘game’. The pending announcement by First Solar, that by 2028 (all) manufacturing facilities will have the manufacturing lines powered by (Solar PV). When this happens can the nay sayers stop with the, “How much coal fired energy does it take to make one of these panels?” Yeah, the future’s so bright, I’ve gotta wear shades. Thanks for the article.

Comments on: First Solar will build its fourth U.S. solar panel factory in the Southeast

By: Green Ridge Solar

By: Solarman