by Dan Shugar | Jan 5, 2021 | Shug Speaks
Belated congratulations and THANK YOU to Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) for successfully working with Congress for a two-year extension of the Solar Investment Tax Credit at last year’s 26% value, passed in December’s spending bill. Rough math...
by Dan Shugar | Dec 25, 2020 | Shug Speaks
Happy holidays and New Year from Nextracker Inc.! The system shown in this recent photo is a project we completed in 2006 (at the prior company PowerLight), a single axis tracker and a fixed PV system designed by Logan Granger helping power the Calera Creek Water...
by Dan Shugar | Dec 15, 2020 | Shug Speaks
Photo Credit: 7X Energy 250 MWac Taygete 1, part of 7X Energy, Inc.’s 1,350 MWac development, is operating now. Congratulations 7X, Swinerton Renewable Energy, JinkoSolar (U.S.) Inc.! What is especially innovative is Nestle’s role as a tax equity...
by Kristan Kirsh | Dec 8, 2020 | Shug Speaks
The latest SolarWakeup Live! podcast features host Yann Brandt and our own Dan Shugar in a lively conversation about the Shug’s first “big” solar projects using solar trackers, the roots of Nextracker and how far the company has come, the big picture in the solar and...
by Kristan Kirsh | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog
The images of solar power plants damaged by extreme weather are sobering. Rows of PV modules, their front glass shattered by hail. Trackers twisted and tossed like toys by high winds. Large-scale solar farms inundated with floodwaters caused by torrential downpours....
by Dan Shugar | Nov 28, 2020 | Shug Speaks
Photo Credit: Google Map A 3.6 GW offshore wind farm (the largest in the world) will be built in the North Sea (halfway between the UK and Denmark), supplying 5% of the UK’s total energy when completed, reported by Steve Hanley at CleanTechnica. GE will be...
by Dan Shugar | Nov 23, 2020 | Shug Speaks
Photo Credit: sPower Many clients have said Virginia is the hardest place to do solar in the U.S., so special kudos to sPower and Mortenson for achieving commercial operation of Pleinmont Solar 1, the first phase of a four project development for which Nextracker...
by Dan Shugar | Nov 15, 2020 | Shug Speaks
Photo Credit: Wisconsin Public Service (WPS) Congratulations Blattner Energy and Nextera Energy for the operation of the 213 MWp Two Creeks project for NEER with partners Wisconsin Public Service and Madison Gas and Electric; the first utility PV scale project near...
by Dan Shugar | Oct 30, 2020 | Shug Speaks
4M acres burned in CA, lots more in Oregon, and major fires underway in Colorado, much attributable to lightning on tender dry ground. See this NY Times article : “According to the U.S. Forest Service’s wildfire database, 44 percent of wildfires across the...
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