Spain-based photo voltaic monitoring options supplier PV {Hardware} is planning to arrange a 6GW tracker manufacturing facility within the US state of Texas.
Resulting from be operational by June 2023, the location would be the firm’s third wholly owned manufacturing facility, alongside one at its headquarters in Spain and one other in Saudi Arabia.
PV {Hardware} has been working within the US since 2011, supplying its merchandise – together with photo voltaic trackers, mounted constructions and SCADA methods – to 36 PV tasks throughout the nation.
The corporate supplied its single-axis trackers for Europe’s largest PV plant, the 590MW Francisco Pizarro undertaking in Spain, which was accomplished final month.
The announcement comes after US tracker producers Nextracker and Array Applied sciences revealed to PV Tech that they each have plans to scale up manufacturing within the nation to benefit from assist included within the just lately handed Inflation Discount Act (IRA).
For US-based tracker producers, the laws gives a US$0.87/kg credit score for the manufacturing of torque tubes and US$2.28/kg credit score for structural fasteners.
Different PV producers which have introduced plans to scale up manufacturing within the US because the IRA was signed into regulation final month embrace module producers First Photo voltaic, Meyer Burger and Heliene in addition to undertaking developer SPI Vitality, which stated it goals to start out producing wafers within the nation by 2023.
