First Solar, Inc., Verve Energy and GE unit GE Energy Financial Services announced that Australia’s first utility-scale solar power project is under way. Output from the 10-megawatt AC project on 80 hectares of cleared land 50km southeast of Geraldton will contribute to offsetting the energy requirements of the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant. Western Australian state-owned power utility Verve Energy and GE Energy Financial Services will each own 50 percent of the Greenough River ...