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60 Seconds in the Sunlight | TerraTrak designed for rocky Rumford Solar site
March 13, 2024
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Longroad Energy closes financing for Arizona solar + storage project | Solar Financing Spotlight
March 13, 2024
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1P Tracker Case Study: Nexamp, Terrasmart solve windy Illinois community solar site
March 6, 2024
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To grade or not to grade? How SIFT determines optimal layouts for challenging solar sites
February 29, 2024
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12 takeaways from VDE tracker hail stow strategies report

Protecting solar facilities from damaging weather can save project stakeholders big in the long run. A new report from VDE Americas and...

February 29, 2024
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Steeling share: OMCO Solar’s factory-direct strategy built for solar’s domestic...

The dawn of the domestic content era has begun in the United States solar industry, and arguably no tracker manufacturer is better positione...

February 21, 2024
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Kinematics opens new facility in China to double manufacturing capacity

Intelligent motion control experts Kinematics has unveiled a new 270,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility in Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China. The state...

February 13, 2024
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Tracking the growth of domestic solar tracker manufacturing

OMCO opened its sixth U.S. manufacturing facility in Alabama. This facility will produce steel backrails for First Solar PV modules, in addi...

February 1, 2024
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Trina Solar president explains their path forward in U.S. solar...

2024 is a big year for Trina Solar in the United States. The shining example is the new 1.35 million sq ft solar PV manufacturing facility i...

January 11, 2024
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Questions left for domestic content tax rules for U.S. solar...

This piece was contributed by Yezin Taha, founder of Nevados, an all-terrain solar tracker manufacturer. Apart from solar power’s envi...

January 10, 2024
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IBEW adding dual-axis solar trackers, storage to net zero Detroit...

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 58 will add three Mechatron Solar dual-axis solar trackers to expansion of ...

December 27, 2023
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Robots on the rise | Part 2 | Factory efficiency...

Automation continues to transform solar construction sites. Previously, we looked at O&M and site prep solutions. In this installment, w...

December 14, 2023
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Ampt configures i50 string optimizer to boost solar tracker ROI

The DC optimizer experts at Ampt released the i50 String Optimizer earlier this year. The i50 features enhanced capabilities for utility-sca...

December 11, 2023
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Soltec unveils new SFOne dual-row solar tracker for the U.S...

Soltec has introduced a new tracker with a unique vertically aligned dual-row design. Designed exclusively for the U.S. solar market, the SF...

November 16, 2023
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Frost heave mitigation matters for your solar project. Here’s why.

Frost heave forces on a driven pile. Image via Terrasmart. Solar PV modules actually perform better in colder temperatures, but the ground c...

October 9, 2023
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New solar tracker wind tunnel research solves for aeroelastic forces...

The solar industry — an emerging industry with rapidly evolving technology — is often, unfortunately, in learn-as-you-go mode. T...

October 2, 2023
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Vote: Commercial and Industrial Solar Projects of the Year 2023

Here are the Ground-Mount Commercial & Industrial (C&I) segment nominees for the 2023 Solar Builder Project of the Year Aw...

September 25, 2023
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Record-setting RE+ 2023 shows how U.S. solar industry is going...

A horde of 40,000 solar + storage industry enthusiasts overran the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas last week at the 2023 RE+ renewable energy s...

September 18, 2023
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FTC unveils tracker-agnostic software to enhance solar plant performance

A new, first-of-its-kind software is providing a holistic view of solar plant performance by monitoring and analyzing all operating asset da...

August 31, 2023