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Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Information Technology
Industry
Semiconductors
Headquarters
United States of America US
Employees
7 900
IPO date
Nov 17, 2006

First Solar makes solar modules, the panels that turn sunlight into electricity, using a thin-film technology that is different from the silicon panels sold by most of the solar industry. Its modules are mainly used in large-scale solar power plants, not on rooftops, so the company sits in the utility-scale part of the clean-energy supply chain.

The company sells its panels to solar developers, utilities, independent power producers, and large commercial customers that build and own big solar farms. It also earns money from related services such as project support, module recycling, and long-term agreements tied to its product delivery and performance. In simple terms, First Solar makes money by supplying the core hardware that large solar projects need and by supporting those projects over time.

What makes First Solar different is its role as a specialist manufacturer with a product designed for large solar sites and hot, sunny conditions. It is not a solar installer or power producer; it is a technology and equipment supplier whose business depends on the buildout of utility-scale solar power. That makes it a key supplier to developers and utilities that need dependable, bankable solar modules for major electricity projects.

First Solar Inc Investor Relations

Address
4300 E Camelback Road, Suite 220
Phoenix, Arizona
United States of America

Business Segments

Solar modules

First Solar designs and manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules for large solar power plants. It also provides related technical support and project services around those modules.

Customers

Utility-scale solar developers, independent power producers, utilities, and EPC contractors building solar farms

Revenue Model

It sells modules and related services under customer supply contracts and project agreements

Management

Mr. Mark R. Widmar

CEO & Director

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Mr. Markus Gloeckler

Chief Technology Officer

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Mr. Jason E. Dymbort

Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary

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Mr. Kuntal Kumar Verma

Chief Manufacturing Officer

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Mr. Byron Michael Jeffers

Chief Accounting Officer

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Richard Romero

VP of Investor Relations & Treasurer

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Ms. Caroline Stockdale

Chief People & Communications Officer

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Mr. Michael Koralewski

Chief Supply Chain Officer

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Mr. Patrick Buehler

Chief Product Officer

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