Q&A | What’s next in solar tracker innovation?
As part of our 2025 Ground-Mount BOS Buyer’s Guide, Solar Builder consulted the top mounting experts in the solar industry to discuss upcoming innovations for tracker systems. Here is what they had to say.
Your definitive intersolar 2025 recap and vibes check
How to sum up Intersolar and Energy Storage North America 2025 (IESNA). It was the best of vibes; it was the worst of vibes.
Louisiana 50 MW solar facility significantly boosts Bayou State’s clean energy production
The Sunlight Road Solar plant is now operational and will generate enough electricity to power approximately 11,500 homes.
New solar farm unveiled in Franklinton
Discover Washington Parish’s new 50-megawatt Sunlight Road Solar farm, soon to power 11,500 homes. Learn about its innovative Nevados TRACE solar trackers that optimize sun-tracking on uneven terrain, protect local ecosystems, and enhance resilience against extreme weather, delivering sustainable energy to Entergy Louisiana.
Sunrise brief: Nevados trackers to qualify as domestic content in 2025
Nevados reports that it will soon be taking orders for its domestic content All Terrain Trackers that it says will fully comply with both Treasury’s new elective safe harbor and pre-existing direct cost requirements, helping developers qualify for a 10% domestic content tax credit, which is in addition to the 30% base investment tax […]
Nevados All Terrain Tracker finishes first in independent ranking of solar trackers for ease and speed of construction
For Immediate Release May 8, 2024 Contact: Peter Kelley, [email protected] Nevados All Terrain Tracker finishes first in independent ranking of solar trackers for ease and speed of construction Construction analysis and consulting firm Eclipse-M found that the Nevados tracker requires only 118 person-hours per megawatt, lower by a wide margin than any comparable market-relevant tracker. […]
US solar industry leans on contract manufacturers to boost domestic output of inverters, trackers
This piece was contributed to Solar Power World Online by Billy Ludt. Domestic solar manufacturing is seeing an unprecedented boom as the industry reaps the tax benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act. To meet the demands of electrifying and decarbonizing the American grid with products made within its borders, companies are expanding operations in the […]
Nevados solar project wins gold medal from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
For Immediate Release April 9, 2024 Contact: Peter Kelley, [email protected] Nevados solar project wins gold medal from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award honors Bartonsville Energy Facility for innovation and sustainability Bartonsville, Virginia, April 9, 2024 — The recently commissioned 170 MWdc Bartonsville Energy Facility solar project has been hailed […]
Virginia solar project using Nevados trackers receives state environmental award
By Billy Ludt | April 9, 2024 The recently commissioned 170-MWDC Bartonsville Energy Facility solar project has been hailed by Virignia’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) as a model of environmental stewardship. This array was able to avoid environmentally disruptive grading of rural sites and less steel at a structural level using Nevados‘ All Terrain Tracker, a single-axis solar tracker. […]
IRA Leads to Partnership for Nevados & Priefert Steel
This article was published on Fast Company on 1/24/24 – Link to original article In East Texas, a steel manufacturing company that has long been known for making farm, ranch, and rodeo equipment, is now taking a big step into the solar industry. The move, aided by the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act, is […]
