First Solar To Build 2-Gigawatt Solar Power Plant in China

September 14, 2009 | Source: The Wall Street Journal

First Solar has signed a deal with Chinese officials to build a nuclear-plant-size 2,000 megawatt solar-power plant in Inner Mongolia by 2019, at an estimated cost of $5 billion to $6 billion (based on costs in the U.S., but less in China).