{"id":3903,"date":"2011-04-14T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2011-04-14T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:58:45","slug":"first-solar-thin-film-utility-power-plant-leader-to-focus-on-10-30-kw-commercial-segment-with-fs-3-first-solar-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2011\/04\/14\/first-solar-thin-film-utility-power-plant-leader-to-focus-on-10-30-kw-commercial-segment-with-fs-3-first-solar-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"First Solar Thin Film Utility Power Plant Leader to focus on 10-30 kw Commercial segment with FS-3 First Solar Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Solar Thin Film Leader and the largest solar company by value has decided to shift focus towards the commercial segment between 10-30 KW in size..The company was promoted by Wal-Mart promoters and has seen remarkable growth in the last few.This US based company uses Cadmium Tellurium (Cd-Te) Technology and\u00a0 is the lowest cost panel producer in the world today if you don\u2019t include any penalty for low efficiency.Note First Solar derives most of its revenues from large utility solar power plants where the lower costs of its Cadmium Tellerium Solar Panels compensates for the Lower Efficiency of its Solar Panels<\/a>.It does not get too many sales to the commercial and residential market\u00a0 where its lower efficiency panels lose out as they require much larger space to generate the same amount of power. First Solar Panels don’t sell well in applications where space is a constraint.Note Sunpower which is the highest efficiency commercial c-Si solar module producer wins out in applications with space constraint.<\/p>\n

Note the competition for First Solar is rising with a number of Thin Film Companies<\/a> entering the fray with big investment and growth plans.The Media recently made a big deal about GE’s plans<\/a> to open a factory making solar panels using the same technology as First Solar.That news was blown out of proportion as there are much more serious existing players in the Thin Film\u00a0 Market Like TSMC,Sharp,Miasole,Q-Cells and others.<\/p>\n

First Solar FS-3 Modules Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note First Solar Panels are rated at 75-85 watts which are the highest power modules that First Solar sells.This is however much lower than the stand 200 watt modules sold by c-Si companies.<\/p>\n

Length 1200mm
\nWidth 600mm
\nWeight 12kg
\nThickness 6.8mm
\nArea 0.72 m2
\nCell Type CdS\/CdTe semiconductor,
\n154 active cells
\nFrame Material None<\/p>\n

Nominal Values FS-375 FS-377 FS-380 FS-382 FS-385
\nNominal Power(+\/-5%) PMPP(W) 75.0 77.5 80.0 82.5 85.0<\/p>\n

Source First Solar<\/em><\/p>\n

First Solar PV Modules Now Available for 10-30 kW Commercial Solar Power Systems<\/a><\/h4>\n

First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced the availability of its industry-leading, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules for use in 10-30 kilowatt (kW) PV systems, effective immediately.<\/p>\n

Since its market debut in 2002, First Solar and its business partners have focused on commercial PV systems larger than 30 kW (DC). With the introduction of the latest, high-efficiency, First Solar Series 3 modules, as well as increasing demand for commercial systems below 30kW, First Solar is responding to customer demand by serving this growing market segment.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommercial rooftops in the 10-30kW range represent a multi-gigawatt market globally,\u201d said TK Kallenbach, President of First Solar\u2019s Components Business Group. \u201cThis expansion gives our customers additional flexibility to serve smaller and medium-sized commercial and industrial rooftops. It is a natural extension of our thin film module capability and allows our customers to continue to learn and apply innovative technology and installation techniques to a growing market.\u201d<\/p>\n

About one-third are installed in commercial rooftop systems. Typical 10-30kW PV systems installed consist of 125-375 First Solar PV modules, require 90-270 square meters of roof space and displace 4-12 metric tons CO2 per year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Solar Thin Film Leader and the largest solar company by value has decided to shift focus towards the commercial segment between 10-30 KW in size..The company was promoted by Wal-Mart promoters and has seen remarkable growth in the last few.This US based company uses Cadmium Tellurium (Cd-Te) Technology and is the lowest cost panel producer in the world today if you don\u2019t include any penalty for low efficiency.Note First Solar derives most of its revenues from large utility solar power plants where the lower costs of its Cadmium Tellerium Solar Panels compensates for the Lower Efficiency of its Solar Panels.It does not get too many sales to the commercial and residential market where its lower efficiency panels lose out as they require much larger space to generate the same amount of power. First Solar Panels don’t sell well in applications where space is a constraint.Note Sunpower which is the highest efficiency commercial c-Si solar module producer wins out in applications with space constraint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,102,45,52],"tags":[224,845,941,1186,1637,1685,1720,1886,2243,2256,3138,3269,3485,3539,3549,4070,5229,5291,5532],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-solar","category-solar-cells","category-solar-renewable-energy-greeninvest","category-solar-panels","tag-a-si","tag-c-si","tag-cd-te","tag-competition","tag-efficiency","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-factory","tag-government","tag-green","tag-investment","tag-jv","tag-ma","tag-manufacturing","tag-marketshare","tag-polysilicon","tag-startup","tag-subsidy","tag-thin-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}