Terrasmart’s test rig in action. As part of our 2025 Ground-Mount BOS Buyer’s Guide, Solar Builder consulted the top mounting ex...
Solar PV can be mounted and energized atop of nearly any ground conditions you’ll encounter across the United States – from vast...
Terrasmart has integrated its fixed-tilt racks and TerraTrak 1P Single Axis Tracker (SAT) with First Solar’s Series 7 TR1 mo...
Pictured: Terrasmart’s TerraTrak with ground-screw foundation Ground conditions have always been a top challenge for solar engineering...
Hail has a devastating impact on US solar sites. According to insurance industry reports, hail accounts for less than 2% of solar project in...
Solar sites are not the ideal parcels of flat land they used to be, so solar mounting and tracker providers have adapted systems to meet tod...
Utilities across the country are managing intermittent renewable integration with varying levels of success — and with good reason. Me...
Located in Lostant, Illinois, in LaSalle County, Solitude II is a 3-MW community solar project brought to life by Nexamp, a solar developer ...
This 6.5 MW Rumford site features precipitous slopes throughout its rocky Maine landscape. Photo via Nexamp and Terrasmart. We focus a lot o...
Frost heave forces on a driven pile. Image via Terrasmart. Solar PV modules actually perform better in colder temperatures, but the ground c...
The solar industry — an emerging industry with rapidly evolving technology — is often, unfortunately, in learn-as-you-go mode. T...
Here are the Community Solar nominees for the 2023 Solar Builder Project of the Year Awards. The form is at the bottom of the page...
A landfill solar project developed by Syncarpha Capital and Pacolet Milliken LLC in New Jersey has earned top marks for civil engineering. E...
There are more than 10,000 closed landfills in the United States, and it has been determined that closed landfills could host more than 60 G...
Whether you are a project developer or an EPC, balancing risks and returns is the crux of any utility PV project. Upstream planning ensures ...
