First Solar
@FirstSolar
First Solar, Inc. is America’s leading PV solar technology and manufacturing company focused on enabling power generation with its uniquely American technology.
Joined September 2010
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America’s industrial decline was a choice. Reversing it is, too.
First Solar CEO Mark Widmar's new op-ed in @RealClearEnergy compares two solar technologies over the same decade against the same adversary — crystalline silicon, which was lost to a state-backed Chinese buildout; and CdTe thin film, which remained in American hands through deliberate choices on IP, manufacturing, and supply chains.
The lesson for critical minerals, batteries, and semiconductors: structural advantages compound. So do dependencies. The on-off switch for American industry stays in American hands if we choose to keep it here.
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