FTC Solar Announces Its First Solar Project in Africa
November 04, 2021 at 04:49 pm EDT
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FTC Solar, Inc. announced that it has been awarded its first project in Africa since entering this new market earlier this year. The project will use FTC Solar's latest Voyager+ tracker solution, which offers all the advantages of FTC's two-panel-in-portrait design, including installation speeds, high slope tolerance, reduced part count and DC collections advantage, while being optimized for the industry's new large format solar modules. The circa one-megawatt (1MW) project has been developed by AAAS Energy in conjunction with BUAN, with the last mile development and EPC works being undertaken by Soventix, South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
FTC Solar, Inc. is a provider of solar tracker systems, technology, software, and engineering services. It offers trackers and software solutions targeting the utility-scale solar energy markets to customers in the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, South Africa and Australia. It is engaged in the sale of solar tracker systems and customized components for those systems, individual part sales for certain specific transactions and the sale of term-based software licenses. Its tracker system is marketed under the Voyager brand name (Voyager), which is built upon a self-powered, two-panel in- portrait (2P) single-axis tracker design utilizing a 60-meter independent row architecture. In addition, its Pioneer 1P solar tracker solution leverages the technological advantages of Voyager. It also offers shipping and handling services, engineering consulting and pile testing services, subscription-based enterprise licensing and maintenance and support services.