The Arizona-based company will supply modules for utility-scale projects and smaller installations in the country via a new agreement with Japanese PV systems distributor XSOL.

It did not reveal the terms of the agreement.

"First Solar is investing in Japan's energy future," Karl Brutsaert, First Solar’s business development director in Japan, said in an online statement.

Late last year, First Solar unveiled plans to spend roughly $100m to develop PV projects throughout Japan.

In