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...
by Kristan Kirsh | Oct 22, 2020 | Shug Speaks
According to 90% of solar employees surveyed, by the Solar Foundation last year, formal and informal mentorship is critical to advancement. Yet only 37% of clean energy companies specifically offer mentorship programs. Nextracker is one such company that offers a...
by Kristan Kirsh | Oct 14, 2020 | Blog
In this installment of Nextracker’s blog series based on the white paper, “Quantifying Your Bifacial Gains: Using Calibrated PVsyst Model Input Parameters,” guest contributor Jenya Meydbray, CEO of PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), discusses several key factors that impact...
by Dan Shugar | Oct 7, 2020 | Shug Speaks
Congratulations to Archtech, Array Technologies, and Soltec for their recent IPOs and/or public filings, collectively bringing enthusiastic investment capital for a collective market cap of $7B to the industry. A friend recently shared that building a great company is...
by Kristan Kirsh | Oct 5, 2020 | Press Release
NX HorizonTM solar tracker selected by Neoen and Sterling & Wilson to deliver substantial yield gains for Western Downs Green Power Hub SYDNEY, October 6, 2020 – Nextracker™, a Flex company, announced that its solar tracker technology, NX Horizon™...
by Dan Shugar | Sep 21, 2020 | Shug Speaks
Chairman Lowenthal, Ranking Member Gosar, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the invitation to be here today. My name is Dan Shugar and I am the founder and CEO of Nextracker, the largest manufacturer of structures and control systems for the solar power...
by Kristan Kirsh | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog
Bifacial PV technology represents the single largest levelized cost of energy (LCOE) improvement opportunity since the introduction of solar trackers. The challenge is to fully capture the value of bifacial PV power plants. To realize this opportunity, investors need...
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