Solar module manufacturer First Solar Inc., Tempe, Ariz., has selected Mesa, Ariz. as the site of a new fabrication plant. The $300-million first phase is scheduled to break ground later this year, with operations beginning third quarter 2012.
The plant will be the first project to break ground at Mesa Proving Grounds, a 3,000-acre master-planned development reinventing a former vehicular testing site used for decades by General Motors. DMB Associates of Scottsdale, Ariz. is the site developer.