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  • NEXTracker working on a giant 325 MW solar tracker project in Egypt

    Global solar EPC company Sterling and Wilson selected NEXTracker to supply 325 megawatts (5 blocks of 65 MW each) of its smart solar trackers to its massive project within the Benban solar park in Aswan, Egypt. The Benban solar park occupies 37-square-kilometers and, when completed in 2019, will host aRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Get to know NEXTracker’s Energy Storage Solutions offering

    Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts the global energy storage market will “double six times” by 2030, growing from less than 5 gigawatt-hours in 2016 to more than 300 gigawatt-hours. An estimated $103 billion will be invested in energy storage over that time period. All of those numbers mean a bigRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Case study: Prepping solar tracker systems in advance of a hurricane

    When the U.S. government declared a state of emergency in advance of Hurricane Irma’s arrival on Sept. 8, we knew what was at stake for the 33 NEXTracker solar projects (or 24,000 tracker rows) that would be affected by the impending high winds and flood waters. Although our experience withRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar tracking system advances: What’s the impact over the life of a PV plant?

    The goal of a solar tracking system is to boost the lifetime energy production of a given site, somewhere between 20 to 30 percent over a 30-year period. But this is not a “set-it-and-forget-it” proposition. Today’s tracker systems are more advanced than ever before, but they require an operations andRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • NEXTracker’s newest solar tracker control system self-adjusts in real time

    NEXTracker is launching a new, intelligent self-adjusting tracker control system for solar power plants that it’s calling TrueCapture. The technology will continuously refine the tracking algorithm of each individual solar array in response to existing site and weather conditions. Typically delivering 2-6 percent energy gains, TrueCapture enables system owners andRead More — Solar Builder magazine