China, U.S. firm sign deal for largest solar plant

Arizona-based First Solar said Tuesday's deal, following an initial agreement in September, marked “another critical step towards the realization of the world's largest solar power plant.”

The agreement between First Solar and the government of Inner Mongolia's Ordos city gives more details of the project and specifies local support for developing the 2-gigawatt solar plant.

Construction is scheduled to start in June on the 30-megawatt initial demonstration phase, the U.S. firm said.

The agreement marks a “critical step forward in the approval process for the Ordos project, one of the world's most ambitious renewable energy projects,” First Solar chief executive officer Rob Gillette said in a statement.

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