Research from Wiki-Solar has found that the most successful module providers to utility-scale photovoltaic plants are developing their own projects to accommodate their products.
In a Wiki-Solar league table of the leading module suppliers to installations of 10 MW or more, four of the top eight companies worldwide have their own development pipeline, although the second, third and fourth biggest suppliers by volume – all Chinese – have yet to adopt the turnkey strategy.
Appropriately named First Solar – with its thin film modules – tops the global module table for the fourth year running, thanks in part to its solar project development pipeline.
The U.S. giant, which has supplied 50 sites with a generation capacity of 1.7 GWp has almost three times as many sites, and supplied more than four times as much generation capacity, as second placed Trina Solar.
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