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Installations
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History
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Market history
System integratorsIndependent power producers.Incentives for solarSolar power in GermanyKulim Hi-Tech Park
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Technology
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Key facts & relationships
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- Founded
- 1999; 27 years ago (1999)
- Industry
- Photovoltaics
- Headquarters
- Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
- Formerly
- First Solar Holdings, Inc. (1999–2006)
- Key people
- Michael J. Ahearn (chairman) · Mark Widmar (CEO)
- Net income
- US$1.5 billion (2025)
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Overview
- Publicly traded Public company
- Solar panels. Solar panels
- Thin-film modules Thin-film solar cell
- CdTe panels Cadmium telluride photovoltaics
- Cadmium telluride
- Harold McMaster
- Photovoltaik Global 30 Index
Technology
- Cadmium
- Telluride Telluride mineral
- NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Nature Energy
- Solar cell efficiency
History
- True North Partners True North Venture Partners
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Perrysburg, Ohio
- Trinity, Alabama
- New Iberia, Louisiana
- Kulim
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Chennai, India
- GW Gigawatt
- PV cells Solar cell
- Frankfurt (Oder)
- Inflation Reduction Act
- Perovskite
Market history
- System integrators System integrator
- Independent power producers. Independent Power Producer
- Incentives for solar PV financial incentives
- Solar power in Germany
- Kulim Hi-Tech Park
- Mesa, Arizona
Installations
- Megawatt Watt
- Copper Mountain Solar Facility
- Boulder City, NV
- Topaz Solar Farm
- Desert Sunlight Solar Farm
- Agua Caliente Solar Project
- Antelope Valley Solar Ranch
- Silver State North Solar Project
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park
- Saih Al-Dahal
- UAE
- DEWA Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
- Trier
- GWh
- Ramat Hovav
- Israel's solar power sector Solar power in Israel
- Belectric Belectric?action=edit&redlink=1
- Waldpolenz Solar Park
- Lieberose Photovoltaic Park
- Stadium Bentegodi Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi
- Verona, Italy
- Greenough River Solar Farm
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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Nodes59
Edges58
Triples95
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033898
Components1
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First Solar
Top relations
related to Europe, Middle East, and North Africa · 36
First Solar → Additionally, As, Belectric, CO2, Constructed, December, DEWA, Dubai Electricity, February, For, Germany, Germany's, GWh, In December, Israel's, Italy, Juwi Group, Leipzig, Lieberose Photovoltaic Park, Mohammed
related to history · 18
First Solar → Act, As, Beginning, China, December, Declines, Early, EEG, European, France, German Renewable Energy Sources, Germany, Historically, India, Italy, PV, Solar, Spain
related to Technology · 14
First Solar → At, CdTe, CdTe-panels, Currently, First Solar's, First Solar’s, In, In August, Nature Energy, NREL, PV, Series, This, TR1
related to Market performance · 5
First Solar → First Solar's, Historically, PV, The, While First Solar
related to External links · 3
First Solar → GoogleSEC, Inc, Official
related to Installations · 3
First Solar → As, Below, First Solar's
Key people · 2
First Solar → Mark Widmar (CEO), Michael J. Ahearn (chairman)
Traded as · 2
First Solar → Nasdaq: FSLR, S&P 500 component
Formerly · 1
First Solar → First Solar Holdings, Inc. (1999–2006)
Founded · 1
First Solar → 1999; 27 years ago (1999)
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Important terminology
solar first company mw inc manufacturing energy modules facility power ceo gw pv new germany production cadmium telluride per acquired
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Solar | Formerly | First Solar Holdings, Inc. (1999–2006) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Founded | 1999; 27 years ago (1999) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Headquarters | Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Industry | Photovoltaics | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Key people | Michael J. Ahearn (chairman) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Key people | Mark Widmar (CEO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Net income | US$1.5 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Number of employees | 7,900 (2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Operating income | US$1.2 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Revenue | US$5.2 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Total assets | US$13.3 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Total equity | US$9.5 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Traded as | Nasdaq: FSLR | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Traded as | S&P 500 component | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Type | Public | 1.00 | infobox |
| First Solar | Website | firstsolar.com | 1.00 | infobox |
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