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The largest solar manufacturer in America, First Solar has specialized in utility-scale solar installations in the past but has announced that they are going to pursue a distributed-generation solar power market.

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First Solar Brings Modules to Distributed Generation Market

First Solar, America’s largest solar module producer (and the only solar manufacturer to bring thin-film solar to the gigawatt scale), has always been a specialist in big utility-scale solar installations and has assiduously avoided distributed generation.

That’s now changed.

With more than 25 GW of its cadmium telluride solar panels installed around the world, First Solar has now made the decision to pursue the distributed-generation solar power market, according to a blog post this week.

The same Series 6 solar modules the company sells in the utility-scale solar power market are now available in the U.S. distributed-generation segment through its distributors Graybar, Kinect Solar, and WESCO Distribution. They will offer First Solar’s Series 6 solar modules “to projects and customers of all shapes and sizes, so that they can power communities and businesses across America.”

From manufacturing to operation to end-of-life recycling, First Solar PV solar modules are the most sustainable in the solar power industry. Series 6 solar modules have the lowest carbon footprint, water use, and pollution footprint of any Tier 1 solar module.

“While First Solar has a long history in the utility-scale space, there have been a number of instances of our technology being used for distributed generation applications both in the U.S. and abroad,” Darin Green, senior director of business development at First Solar, told pv magazine. “The goal here is to offer American-designed PV technology to projects and customers of all shapes and sizes across the U.S. In other words, if you want to power community solar, C&I projects, schools, and municipal or military installations with First Solar technology, it is now available through our distributor partners.”

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