First Solar Drops 150 MW Project in Colorado
U.S. solar power company First Solar Inc (FSLR.O) has dropped plans to develop a 150 megawatt solar power project in Colorado, the company said on Tuesday, shifting its focus to "higher priority projects."
Tempe, Arizona-based First Solar is one of the world's largest solar module makers and has more than 1.5 gigawatts of power projects in its pipeline.
The company on Dec. 17 withdrew its application with the Bureau of Land Management to build the project across 2,100 acres of high desert in Colorado's San Luis Valley, said Steven Hall, a spokesman with the federal agency in Colorado.
Withdrawing the application lets First Solar work on higher-priority and "nearer-term" projects, company spokesman Alan Bernheimer wrote in an email.
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