{"id":179719,"date":"2010-01-14T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:15:48","slug":"first-solar-acquires-project-development-pipeline-from-edison-mission-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/179719","title":{"rendered":"First Solar Acquires Project Development Pipeline from Edison Mission Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/solar.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Solar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First Solar, the Tempe, Ariz.        maker and installer of thin-film photovoltaic panels, has acquired utility-scale solar projects to be developed in California and across the U.S. Southwest from the Edison Mission Group (EMG), a unit of Edison International.<\/p>\n<p>The EMG projects are set to generate as much as 150 megawatts and are not backed by any long-term power purchase agreements.<\/p>\n<p>This latest acquisition beefs up First Solar&#8217;s power generation portfolio.<a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/03\/first-solar-to-buy-optisolars-project-pipeline-in-400m-all-stock-deal\/\" > Last year the company<\/a> acquired project developer OptiSolar in an all stock transaction worth $400 million. First Solar&#8217;s existing portfolio of utility-scale PV solar projects is largely sited on public land and is mostly under contract with utilities.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Lisa Bodensteiner, First Solar vice        president of business development for North America, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Acquiring the EMG development pipeline extends First Solar&#8217;s leadership        in the U.S. utility market. It builds on our        strategy to cultivate robust and predictable module demand in        utility-scale applications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; More to come<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/j7j-bVhTofo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Solar, the Tempe, Ariz. maker and installer of thin-film photovoltaic panels, has acquired utility-scale solar projects to be developed in California and across the U.S. Southwest from the Edison Mission Group (EMG), a unit of Edison International. The EMG projects are set to generate as much as 150 megawatts and are not backed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}