The Ordos agreement is the latest large-scale solar farm deal that First solar has signed in recent months as it expands its business from manufacturing solar modules to building power plants.

第一太阳能公司从制造太阳能电池组件拓展到建设电厂的业务，鄂尔多斯协议是它在近几个月签署的大规模太阳能电站协议中最新的一份。

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First Solar is engaged in the manufacturing and sale of solar modules with an advanced thin film semiconductor technology, and it competes with other solar industry players like SunPower , Suntech Power and Yingli Green Energy.

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Tiller says his company uses about one-third the manufacturing space that First Solar needs.

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In other words, First Solar is profiting from not just manufacturing its thin-film photovoltaic panels but the added fees that come from deploying tens of thousands of them in a solar power plant that it builds, operates and maintains and eventually sells to investors.

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