SolarIndustryMag.com: First Solar Halts Agua Caliente Installation Until 2013

by SI Staff on Friday 31 August 2012

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First Solar Inc. has reportedly stopped construction on its 290 MW Agua Caliente PV plant in Yuma County, Ariz., because it is too far ahead of schedule.

Last month, the company announced that the installation was more than two-thirds complete. Now, according to a Bloomberg report, First Solar must halt module deliveries because of contractual obligations. Module shipments are not expected to resume until January, and product that has already arrived at the site will remain in boxes until construction picks back up.

Aaron Chew, an analyst at Maxim Group, told Bloomberg that First Solar got ahead of schedule on Agua Caliente construction because it was diverting excess modules to the Arizona project site as inventory built up during the global solar module oversupply period. The project is currently 85% complete.

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	CaptD	Reply
	31 Aug : 12:28
	First Solar Halts Agua Caliente Installation Until 2013 What a shame and a waste of solar energy! Why can't they speed up the process? I'm fearful of something happening to the stored panels which will give the project a black eye...

	cme4greensolutions@gmail.com	Reply
	05 Sep : 09:34
	First Solar Halts Agua Caliente Installation Until 2013 What is wrong with ahead of schedule?. I dont get it. Can someone explain?