First Solar (FSLR) is entering the French market with a splash, announcing this morning a partnership with French utility EDF Energies Nouvelles to build France’s largest solar panel manufacturing plant with annual capacity of more than 100MW of thin film panels. 

EDF will finance half of the $126 million cost of the plant in exchange for the plant’s output for the next 10 years.  Now that’s what I call locking up supply!  No site has … Read the rest