First Solar acquired TetraSun in April 2013 amid growing concerns that its cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film modules were increasingly uncompetitive, and that the company had focused too heavily on the utility-scale market at the expense of building market share in the distributed-generation sector.
The 100MW TetraSun production line is now up and running, according to Malaysia’s Daily Express newspaper. The line – producing 300W, n-type, 60-cell, silicon-based modules – is within an existing First Solar facility in Malaysia, where the company does most of its manufacturing.
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