When Georges Antoun came to Louisiana from Lebanon in the early 1980s, he needed money. The country was entering an oil crisis, and cities along the Gulf Coast — especially places like Lafayette that ...

First Solar’s fifth operating US manufacturing facility creates over 800 new manufacturing jobs Facility forecast to raise Iberia Parish’s GDP by 4.4% in first full year of operations at capacity ...

Net sales for the period reached US$1.1 billion, the majority of which came from increased sales of its cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film modules. Image: First Solar. US cadmium telluride (CdTe) ...

First Solar reported record 2025 earnings and set 2026 guidance projecting up to $5.2 billion in sales, underpinned by U.S. manufacturing expansion and federal production tax credits. First Solar, Inc ...