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First Solar and EDF Energies Nouvelles in Exclusive Talks with Blanquefort

PV plant expected to be France's largest, create up to 400 jobs

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

First Solar, Inc. and EDF Energies Nouvelles announced that they are in the final stages of exclusive negotiations with the town of Blanquefort, near the city of Bordeaux, to locate a new solar panel manufacturing plant. The plant, co-financed by First Solar and EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN), will be operated by First Solar and sell its entire production of innovative, thin-film photovoltaic panels to EDF EN for its first 10 years of operation. Construction is expected to begin in the secon...

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