NEXTracker, the fastest selling solar tracker in the world, inaugurated its expanded bifacial solar test facility at its Center for Solar Excellence in Fremont, CA, April 22 to celebrate Earth Day. The test bed includes 20 different bifacial test scenarios, including multiple panel types from Longi, JA Solar, and Jinko, says Dan Shugar, the founder of the company.
Atlas Renewable Energy has adopted NEXTracker’s TrueCapture orientation software for several new solar projects in Latin America, while retrofits are in the works for older arrays lacking the control system. Atlas has more than 1 gigawatt of early-stage to fully operational projects across the region.
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), SunPower, First Solar, SolarCity, JinkoSolar, Trina Solar, Flex, and a coalition of other solar photovoltaic industry firms, have launched what is now the first solar photovoltaic recycling program in the US, according to some recent press releases. The new SEIA-backed, US-based solar photovoltaic (PV) recycling … [continued]
