薄膜光伏制造商和项目开发商First Solar近日宣布，其已经以2.97亿美元完成太阳能开发公司NextLight可再生电力的收购。
First Solar总部设在亚利桑那州，这次收购增大了其在北美的公共太阳能项目至2.2GW。 在过去16个月，该公司收购了OptiSolar 和 Edison Mission Group。其表示在收购NextLight后，First Solar的第一项目就是在亚利桑那州Yuma县建设一座290MW的Agua Caliente太阳能项目。预计将在今年年底动工。
加州公共事业委员会于6月3日签订与太平洋电气公司该项目的电力购买协议.
NextLight由Energy Capital Partners组建, 其是一家设在新泽西州的私人资本运营公司。
First Solar finishes $297m purchase of developer NextLight
Thin-film PV maker and project developer First Solar says it has completed the acquisition of solar development company NextLight Renewable Power for $297m in cash.
First Solar, based in Arizona, says the deal boosts its utility-scale solar project development pipeline to 2.2GW in North America. The company has purchased solar projects in the past 16 months from OptiSolar and Edison Mission Group.
The first NextLight project to be built by First Solar is the 290MW Agua Caliente Solar Project in Yuma County, Arizona. Ground-breaking is expected later this year.
The California Public Utilities Commission on 3 June approved the project's power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric..
NextLight was formed by the inaugural fund of Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in New Jersey.
