Nextracker is launching NX Foundation Solutions, an initiative to deploy its trackers across all soil types, which includes the introduction of NX Anchor, a new ground-mount foundation. NX Anchor further expands Nextracker’s solar foundations portfolio following the company’s acquisitions of ground-mount company Ojjo in June and Solar Pile International in July.
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NX Foundation Solutions also includes a suite of services providing geotechnical reviews, on-site testing, foundation design, product selection, proprietary equipment and installation support. It will also include drilling and pile driving equipment training, sales, leasing and support, including the Ojjo Truss Driver. The Truss Driver is a patented all-in-one drilling and pile driving machine equipped with GPS that driven more than one million foundation piles.
“We are thrilled to now offer comprehensive and innovative solar foundation solutions to our customers and partners,” said Dan Shugar, founder and CEO of Nextracker. “Delivering high quality, cost-effective solutions that help to improve productivity, safety, and accelerate project timelines, and enable light-on-land construction practices are objectives of this program. NX Foundation Solutions provide our developer and EPC customers with a full range of technologies and services across a broad range of soil types from rocky to soft, and virtually everything in between.”
With the rapid growth of the solar industry in recent years, more projects are being developed on sites that do not offer flat land with ideal soil conditions. Depending on the project site, Nextracker’s foundations can result in up to 50% less steel and up to 70% shallower embedment depth than traditional pilings. This can help lead to reductions in cost and schedule contingencies, lower pile refusal and remediation rates during construction, improvements in project development and construction timelines, and a safer working environment while lowering the impact to native soils, creating a “light on land” approach.
“Nextracker’s expansion into the foundation space helps reduce the complexity and risk of our projects,” said Stephen Jones, president of renewables, Primoris Services Corporation. “Based on our experience, Nextracker is offering value-added foundation solutions for the industry as projects become increasingly complex with challenging subsurface conditions. These solutions can streamline the design, procurement and installation process while reducing the risk profile born by EPC contractors and developers. We believe the industry will benefit.”
Nextracker’s new foundations portfolio is designed to work with its catalog of solar trackers, working with adverse ground conditions including expansive, soft, loose, rocky or frost-prone soil.
Nextracker will be showcasing NX Foundation Solutions and the new NX Anchor this week at RE+ in Anaheim, California, at booth C40038.
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