First Solar to Face Wall Street Questions After Brown Leaves

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First Solar Inc., the biggest maker of thin-film solar modules, will issue its forecast for 2013 sales to analysts and investors tomorrow, after announcing today the departure of the executive who led its global effort to build utility-scale power plants with its panels.

James Brown, executive vice president for global business development, is leaving the company effective today, the Tempe, Arizona-based company said in a regulatory filingBloomberg Terminal.