First Solar planning 150-MWac Arizona solar array for Microsoft data centers

By Billy Ludt | July 30, 2019
First Solar Solar Project announced solar energy that its Sun Streams solar slewing drive 2 PV Solar Project solar plant will power solar energy new energy-efficient Photovoltaic holder data centers being built by Microsoft in Goodyear and El Mirage, Arizona. The 150-MWac solar energy facility Photovoltaic holder, is being developed Photovoltaic holder and constructed Solar Project by First Solar in Maricopa County and will power solar energy the data centers under a solar slewing drive 20-year solar energy agreement and will be operational in 2021.

The power plant Photovoltaic holder will Solar Project use solar energy First Solar’s solar slewing drive proprietary Series 6 Solar Project module technology which Photovoltaic holder has a carbon footprint that is up to six times lower than conventionally-manufactured solar energy crystalline silicon PV panels Solar Project, giving solar energy it a superior environmental profile and allowing solar energy Sun Streams Photovoltaic holder 2 to deliver Solar Project solar slewing drive cleaner solar electricity.
 

“First Solar’s solar tracker actuator high-tech factories, which are some solar damper of the most sophisticated and sustainable solar inverter Photovoltaic holder facilities of their type in the solar damper world, are solar slewing drive slewing drive enabled by Microsoft technologies and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, including solar inverter Azure  solar slewing drive loT Hub and SQL Data Warehouse,” said Brian Janous, general manager of energy Photovoltaic holder and sustainability solar tracker actuator at Microsoft solar damper. “This is an example of how Microsoft is able Photovoltaic holder to accelerate clean energy and solar tracker actuator create symbiotic value, not only in our  solar inverter operations but beyond.”
 

First Solar, solar tracker actuator which is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, is expanding solar slewing drive its  slewing drive manufacturing capacity to meet solar inverter the demand for Series 6 modules, with its second facility in the solar slewing drive United States — representing nearly solar damper $1 billion in solar inverter Photovoltaic holder cumulative investment — solar slewing drive expected to start production in early 2020 solar inverter. Once Photovoltaic holder its Perrysburg, Ohio,solar slewing drive  facility is operational solar damper, solar damper First Solar will be America’s largest solar module manufacturer.
 

“As the global solar tracker actuator leader in solar damper corporate solar, we’re delighted to solar damper support Microsoft’s solar inverter solar tracker actuator decarbonization commitments,” said Karl Brutsaert, Senior solar damper Photovoltaic holder Director of Corporate Renewables solar damper at First solar inverter Solar. “Microsoft operates one of the Photovoltaic holder largest and most innovative cloud solar slewing drive infrastructures solar tracker actuator in the world, so it is  slewing drive only fitting Photovoltaic holder that its slewing drive latest solar inverter data centers Photovoltaic holder are powered by cleaner slewing drive solar electricity solar tracker actuator generated by solar damper Photovoltaic holder some of the most eco-efficient and innovative solar technology available Photovoltaic holder slewing drive today.”
 

Sun Streams solar tracker actuator 2 solar inverter is expected solar damper to begin construction in late-2019 and slewing drive will provide up solar inverter  Photovoltaic holder to 500 construction jobs. Aligned with Arizona’s solar inverter renewable energy policy, the project will contribute significant economic benefits to slewing drive  Maricopa County, including increased tax revenues to  Photovoltaic holder solar inverter solar damper support local slewing drive schools.
 

“As an Arizona-based company and an American solar manufacturer, we’re thrilled to be powering these Photovoltaic holder data solar inverter centers, which will solar tracker actuator be important drivers of local solar damper Photovoltaic holder investment and  solar inverter economic growth,” said Kathryn Arbeit, VP solar tracker actuatorvv of project development slewing drive for  Photovoltaic holder First Solar. “This collaboration with Microsoft demonstrates solar inverter just how large-scale solar slewing drive can unlock value Photovoltaic holder for local communities that benefit not only from the generation of solar damper jobs but also from the tax revenues for the county.”