Sunrise brief: Soltec books tracker orders for 700 MW of solar capacity
Also on the rise: Price increases and trade uncertainty weigh on solar, TVA prices a green bond offering, and we look at factors that affect rooftop solar longevity.
Soltec wins tracker order for 700 MW of solar capacity in Colorado
The order is expected to strengthen Soltec’s operating backlog, which stood at nearly $430 million at the end of the second quarter.
Cleantech Roundup: Soltec, SunPower, Schletter, and more
Check out this week’s list of some of the newest announcements related to clean energy products.
Energy Funding: IPOs, M&A, VC and grants for flow batteries, fuel cells, PV trackers and equitable access to solar
Another busy funding week with solar IPOs on deck and venture capital investments — but no cleantech SPACs in the last few day, at least.
Soltec plans IPO — another solar tracker company going public
The Spanish solar tracker builder is hoping to debut on the stock markets of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia this year. American solar tracker company Array Technologies has also filed to go public.
NEXTracker was the largest tracker provider in 2019
The ten largest solar tracker companies accounted for 88% of the market last year, according to analyst Wood Mackenzie, with the market growing 20% from 2018.
Dan Shugar, NEXTracker CEO, on solar trackers in wind and the terror of torsional galloping
In the final part of our interview, Dan Shugar, goes into detail about a subject NEXTracker has studied in depth — static and dynamic evaluation of wind impacts on single-axis trackers. We include video of trackers (and a bridge) caught galloping in the wind.
Deeper analysis of bifacial solar panel data – including greater cooling and how DC to AC ratios affect clipping
Soltec single axis tracker research shows greater production in a two-in-portrait configuration versus a single module by just over 2%, driven mostly by lower module temperatures as well hardware design adjustments.
Soltec achieves 16.2% Bifacial Gain, Ohio State makes a potassium battery breakthrough: pvMB 9/18/19
Happy Wednesday, folks and welcome to the pvMB. Today we’ll be checking out 7 Michigan school districts moving to electric bus fleets, Extensible Energy’s virtual battery, net metering protests in The Big Easy and more.
LONGi shingled module, Soltec bifacial simulations, Campbell Scientific solar albedo, more!
Hardware! Hardware! Get your fresh hardware! Terrasmart’s new *fixed* racking takes into account bifacial solar panels, Quickmount releases 5 to 10 degree commercial rooftop racking system, “Lead Crystal” batteries with 18-20 year lifetimes, more!
