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Thin-film producer First Solar has been awarded the module supply contract for Australia’s largest solar plant.

Prime Road Group and First Solar announced Tuesday that it has completed four solar farms totalling 18MW of capacity in Thailand.

While there is no shortage of leading indicators in the PV industry that can be used to predict future trends in manufacturing and across the various companies involved in this space, one of the most pertinent ones relates to capital expenditure (or capex).

Southern Company-owned Gulf Power has teamed with Coronal Energy, powered by Panasonic, to develop a 120MW PV portfolio at military bases in Florida.

In this week's Movers & Shakers, PV Tech focuses on employment news within German and US energy companies; featuring energy storage, solar cell manufacturing and EPC.

First Solar and offtaker NextEra Energy have officially commissioned the 250MW Silver State South PV project.

Major power firm EnergyAustralia has confirmed it will soon sign power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 500MW of wind and solar projects across eastern Australia, in contracts worth AU$1.5 billion (US$1.12 billion).

The global market for utility-scale PV and operations & maintenance (O&M) will reach 182GW by the end this year, GTM Research’s latest report finds.

8point3 Energy Partners has agreed to acquire First Solar’s entire 34% stake in the 300MW Stateline solar PV project in California for US$329.5 million.

First Solar announced Tuesday that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with MCE for electricity produced from 40MW of First Solar’s Little Bear PV project in Fresno County, California.