{"id":339049,"date":"2025-11-14T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/first-solar-pours-330m-into-a-new-south-carolina-solar-factory\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:39:08","slug":"first-solar-pours-330m-into-a-new-south-carolina-solar-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/first-solar-pours-330m-into-a-new-south-carolina-solar-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"First Solar pours $330M into a new South Carolina solar factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/first-solar-pours-330m-into-a-new-south-carolina-solar-factory.jpg\" \/>First Solar, the US\u2019s largest solar panel manufacturer,\u00a0has now announced the location of its new solar factory. The company says it will build a new facility in Gaffney, South Carolina, to handle the final production steps for its Series 6 Plus thin film modules. Those components are currently made by First Solar\u2019s factories overseas, but once the South Carolina plant opens in the second half of 2026, they\u2019ll be finished on US soil. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/11\/14\/first-solar-pours-330m-into-a-new-south-carolina-solar-factory\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/first-solar-pours-330m-into-a-new-south-carolina-solar-factory\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":339050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}