First Solar, Inc. announced it will build its new U.S. manufacturing center in Mesa, AZ. First Solar will invest about $300 million in the factory, which will create approximately 600 jobs and will include four manufacturing lines with a capacity to produce more than 250 megawatts (MW) of advanced thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules per year. The new factory, in combination with First Solar’s recently expanded facility in Perrysburg, OH, will increase First Solar’s U.S. production capacity to mo...