First Solar的大型光伏工廠已悄然在加利福尼亞的布萊斯試運營。

相對較小的光伏工廠成功的關鍵是不與地面接觸。與250兆瓦的太陽能槽技術不同，該工程僅有21兆瓦。

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First Solar Begins Operation of Largest Thin-Film PV Plant in California

First Solar’s utility-scale PV plant has now been quietly up and running, in Blythe, California, for its first full month. Once it got a go-ahead in the summer this project only took three months to build.

Perhaps its relatively smaller size for utility-scale solar holds a key to its success in getting off the ground.  Unlike the 250 MW solar trough technologies that are held up in reviews, this project is a modest 21 MW