Nextracker recently published findings from its bifacial solar tracker research. It explains some of the advantages inherent within its NX Horizon single-axis tracker design for achieving bifacial gains, but more importantly, it shows how these gains can be accurately modeled within PVsyst. The entire report is worth a deep-dive, butRead More

Longroad Energy Holdings, a US-based renewable energy developer, owner and operator, announced the financial close and commencement of construction of the Prospero 2 Solar Project, a 331 megawatt direct current project located in Andrews County, TX. Longroad will manage construction as well as continue to own the $320 million project,Read More

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) will be upgrading its entire solar fleet that use Nextracker’s smart solar trackers with TrueCapture energy enhancement and NX Navigator monitoring software. As an initial adopter of the technology, DESRI has played a key role in helping Nextracker optimize the software and develop newRead More

  You may have noticed Nextracker didn’t get the all caps NEXT treatment in the headline (no? just us copy editors?). It is part of a big rebranding the company is undergoing — I was going to say “the solar tracker company is undergoing,” but the message behind the rebrandRead More

NEXTracker released a new smart control software — NX Navigator — at Intersolar North America this week which builds on the company’s TrueCapture system with new monitoring data, maintenance controls and instant risk avoidance tools. For monitoring, plant operators are provided timely information for key parameters at the site, subfield,Read More

Origis Energy USA selected RES to construct the Origis Energy Tanglewood Solar project, a 57.5 MW(ac) solar farm in Mitchell County, Georgia. Origis Energy developed the solar site as one of the facilities under the Georgia Power Renewable Energy Development Initiative (REDI) serving the utility’s customers participating in the CommercialRead More

Intersect Power, a utility-scale renewable energy developer, along with Chattanooga, Tenn.-based EPC Signal Energy, has five massive shovel-ready projects, located in California and Texas, ready to begin construction in 2020. Signal and Intersect have been working over the past 18 months to design this large portfolio of solar power plants thatRead More

Following a record year of shipments for PV tracking systems globally, IHS Markit forecasts more than 150 GWdc of PV tracking systems will be deployed from 2019 to 2023, accounting for approximately one third of ground-mounted PV installations during the period according to its upcoming Global PV Tracker Market ReportRead More

Large-scale solar + storage is on the drawing boards of a host of major EPCs, with the current round of demonstration plants leading to wholesale installations by 2020, say several industry players. “While we are early in the deployment cycle for large-scale solar + storage, we expect a ramping atRead More

Shaving the peaks off commercial and industrial (C&I) electric bills is the top revenue stream for energy storage systems, and given the trend in increasing utility charges for time-of-use consumption, peak shaving can pay for a system in as little as three years, system providers say. Just how high theRead More