We continue to feel the impact the global COVID-19 pandemic and commodity volatility is having on supply chains, resulting in material shortages, logistic capacity constraints and significantly increasing raw materials, transportation and labor costs. Raw Materials, such as Steel and Copper, have also climbed to record highs. This comes along with a high demand for solar installation services.
For Helge Biernath, president and CEO of Sunstall, jobsite efficiency is worthless without supply chain efficiency.
“Too many EPCs are just looking at price and they forget that time is money,” he tells us. “I’ve had conversations asking if I could reduce the price, but how can we do that when overall costs are going up? How about instead we cut down on the installation time from three weeks a MW to two weeks a MW? That will mean something — so we can move on to the next project.”
Dear Sunstall partner,
It’s been ten years in the making and we are thrilled to have reached this milestone, with you by our side.
From Hawaii to Massachusetts, Sunstall has been there to bring solar to the reaches of the US. Continuing forward, our mission is to sunstall solar in evermore States, proliferating reusable energy, and carrying forward our key partnerships.
A decade of Sunstalling is just the beginning! We look forward to the next ten years and to the growth to come.
These days, solar contractors are looking for solutions to move quickly, reducing downtime, and increasing productivity. One way this can be accomplished is through material handling logistics. Better logistics helps companies complete jobs more efficiently in a shorter time frame.
Having many other uses, steel piles are often used to build the foundations for utility-scale PV applications. In use, they become exposed to different types of corrosion of various extents. Some of the main elements that impact the level of corrosion are pile shape, driving method and the type of material. Common shapes include H-piles, pipe-piles, screw piles and disc piles – all of which can have different material types. H-piles have become the most used for solar structures, because they have very good structural characteristics. This allows them to be well-suited for the loads seen in solar installations.
In general, corrosion takes place when two different metals come into contact with a conductive liquid, resulting in a flow of DC electricity. Pile corrosion can be divided into two groups: Atmospheric and soil corrosion.
I dreamed of traveling to the United States, seeing this great new world, which is life overseas, how work and technology look like… And here I am!
My name is Sebastian Bauer and I am a 23 year old just starting work in the solar industry. Before entering the industry I had a very basic understanding of renewable energy in all of its forms; I knew what a solar panel was, I knew that it was used to power everything from single homes to entire manufacturing facilities, and that everyone was saying …
We are very proud to have achieved another milestone – being a SOLTEACH PRO.
Solteach Pro is the comprehensive factory-certification PV plant design and installation training program of Soltec’s SF7 Single-Axis Tracker application. This professional program is aimed at solar industry companies and workers specializing in solar tracker design and installation in PV on a utility scale.
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