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Achieving Greater Terrain Flexibility Across Challenging PV Solar Sites with DuraTrack
Achieving Greater Terrain Flexibility Across Challenging PV Solar Sites with DuraTrack Utility-scale power plant projects around the world are running into a common challenge. The ideally flat sites are either drying ...
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Utility-Scale PV Solar Trends: Increasing Power and Module Size
A primary goal of utility-scale PV power plants is to optimize power production. To achieve that goal, manufacturers are turning to increased module sizes in the hopes of increasing module power. This can bring lower levelized cost of energy, lower ...
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All hail the DuraTrack HZ v3: Best-in-class extreme weather mitigation with array technologies
Extreme weather is a clear enemy of utility-scale photovoltaic power plants. A recent trend of increasingly costly extreme wind and hail disasters reinforces this point, wreaking havoc not only with the actual plants in terms of construction ...
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Part 3: Why PV Trackers Are a Critical Component of a Risk Profile for Utility-Scale PV Solar Lenders and Insurers
Every aspect of the PV solar project plays a part in risk. Plant design, available technology, and risk mitigation features that can be built into a tracker can affect all elements of a solar assets long-term risk profile. Trackers are one of the ...
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Part 2: Historic and Current Market Risk Assessment for Utility-Scale PV Solar Lenders and Insurers
Utility-scale PV market changes happen rapidly. These shifts have accelerated over the decades, but the past decade has been particularly transformative. One significant change is utility-scale solar power plants growing in size. 1 ...
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Part 1: Pitfalls to Avoid for Utility-Scale PV Solar Lenders and Insurers
Throughout Array’s 30-plus years in utility-scale PV, we’ve seen major shifts in the solar energy market. As the market currently expands with utility-scale PV assets, more and more lenders and ...
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What’s Your Risk Tolerance during Construction of a Utility-Scale PV Solar Power Plant? Active Stow vs. Passive Mitigation
Utility-scale engineering and construction projects are inherently risky. Large numbers of people independently working on a site, out in the weather, around dangerous machinery large and small, racing to finish ...
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Backtracking and Diffuse Light Strategies with SmarTrack from Array Technologies
The key to operating a successful PV power plant is maximizing energy harvest while keeping a vigilant eye on minimizing inefficiencies that lead to reduced profits or even underperformance. Array Technologies’ SmarTrack™ energy ...
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Flocking to a Utility-Scale PV O&M Solution
Operating and maintaining a utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant is a time-consuming and expensive proposition. However, there’s been a unique innovation in PV plant operation – though it comes from a simple and decidedly ...
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Array Technologies and DuraTrack at Roadrunner Solar
With more than 1.2 million solar panels, Texas’s Roadrunner solar plant is one of the largest of its kind in the world. In fact, by the time its second phase of construction is complete later this year, it will be the largest operational solar ...
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Exploring Bifacial 2MIL for LCOE Optimization
Setting the Record Straight on Bifacial Modules and Trackers Recently, bifacial solar modules have been gaining popularity, especially with the recent announcement that they are exempt from US tariffs. So we are taking this ...
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Solar Module Shortage is No Problem with Array Technologies’ Flexible Installation Capability
No Modules, No Panic. With U.S. solar developers and site owners scrambling to get module orders shipped to sites ahead of the ITC step-down at the end of the year, panel shortages are becoming commonplace. In fact, Reuters even reports that the ...
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Array Technologies and its Valued Partner, STC Elektronik, Grow Turkish Solar Investments Together
Array Technologies is continuing to expand across the world, with sustainable and robust growth. Most recently, Array Technologies completed new projects with Turkish partner, STC Elektronik. Cesar Alberte, Vice President International at Array ...
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Investing in Latin America’s Solar Future: What are the greatest risks?
The Latin American utility-scale solar market is one of the largest in the world. To speak more about the region’s robust growth and risks that investors may not be aware of, Cesar Alberte Sendin, Vice President International at Array ...
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Solar Investments: Reducing the Risk of Unfavorable Returns
Competitive prices, on-time delivery, quick installation–it’s all too easy to make assumptions about what utility-scale solar investors may want. However, what’s commonly overlooked or discounted by many outside the investment ...
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Utility-Scale Solar: Maximizing Project Profitability with Trackers
Watching the prices recently for utility-scale solar power-purchase agreements has felt a bit like being a spectator at an ultra-competitive Olympic event, where each successive race delivers a new world record. The headline-grabbing 1.79 cents per ...
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Tracker Bankability: The Truth Behind the Reports
A major reason The Big Short was such a widely acclaimed book and movie was because it was able to take the complicated financial arcana that led to the housing crisis and make it understandable and entertaining. During the lead up to the crisis, ...