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First Solar, System developers - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 29% to 35%
        
        Sold to third party integrators
        
        grey market
  - - - 40% - 25%
  - - - 31% to 40% by 2020
        
        financed by solar leases and power purchasee agreements (PPA)
        
        Developer full responsibility from design to installation
        
        developer operated for 10-25 yrs
        
        customer purchased the generated electricity
    - - lower number of projects
      - Space constraint
      - where space was not constrained efficiency was compromised for cost
      - vendor track record
      - Feed-in-tarriffs were high
- - - - Revenue Growth
        
        Down from 66% in 2009 to 24% in 2010 and 8% in 2011
        
        Chinese manufacturers and their govt subsidies
        
        Crystalline-silicon (c-Si) panels
        
        Silicon prices were also falling making it attractive
        
        China exporting 90% of production
        
        China govt subsidy for both demand and supply 70% in remote areas
        
        National program Golden sun
        
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        18-20% of cost were reduced by subsidies
        
        PV panels demand weakening
        
        2008-2009 global finance crisis
        
        Weakened Financial positions of banks
        
        Shrinking European subsidies
        
        disappearing finance from banks
- - - - 2 plants
  - - - new utility ventures in high sunshine areas africa, middle east
- - - - company cost and quantity advantage
        
        for a decade