Tag: Stracker Solar
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Stracker Solar: Passion leads to prosperity for dual-axis tracker manufacturer
The roots of Stracker Solar were formed in the mid-1970s when founder and COO Jeff Sharpe began designing and installing “bread box” solar water heaters with his father in Southern California’s San Joaquin Valley. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ashland, Oregon, Stracker Solar grew out of the community-based energy engineering business Sharpe founded a……
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Dual-use solar projects: Going beyond agrivoltaics and PV parking lots
This piece was submitted by Stracker Solar. As solar installations increase across the United States, two primary and sometimes competing concerns continue to impact developers and EPCs: finding space for larger-scale solar projects and keeping costs within budget. But with the development of innovative solar technologies, a novel space-saving concept has been gaining popularity: dual-use……
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Ground-Mount Solar BOS Buyer’s Guide 2023
There is a solar structure and electrical system for every space you encounter. From Midwestern mall parking lots to Northeastern landfills to vast rocky desert landscapes — and all of those solutions are listed in this 2023 Ground-Mount Solar BOS Buyer’s Guide. For this year’s Ground-Mount BOS Buyer’s Guide, we reached out to suppliers of……
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Solarizing parking lots with solar carports or elevated solar trackers
This piece was submitted by Stracker Solar. With parking lots taking up roughly one-third of the land area across cities in the U.S., and rising concerns about the loss of arable land to industrial-size solar farms, attention has turned to how parking lots can be a vital option for energy generation. Beyond the readily available……
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Overview of the dual-axis solar tracker market
While single-axis utility-scale solar tracker installations have widely proliferated in the heady solar market, the more commercial and industrial-oriented dual-axis tracker has not enjoyed such rapid growth, despite the economic advantages the second axis offers by following the sun much more closely. Part of the reason that the market for dual-axis trackers has not boomed……