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Nevada solar project
faced rocky conditions
McCarthy Building Companies
faced a number of challenges
on the Turquoise Solar project,
including rocky conditions, but
TerraSmart, known for its ability
to forge into arduous soils with
its proprietary ground screw
foundation, ably installed the
solar racking foundation.
By Tony
Kryzanowski
The 61-megawatt (MW) Turquoise
Solar project in Nevada began producing power in
November—and that in itself is significant, because many
in the industry wondered if it could even be built given the
list of challenges presented by the site.
The solar array is located on undulating terrain near the
base of a mountain composed of igneous rock on and
below the surface. The amount of workable space available
on the site to install the total array for optimum performance
was definitely at a premium.
It took the combined efforts of engineering, procurement
, and construction (EPC) contractor McCarthy Building
Companies, which prepared and implemented their
design concept, and foundation and racking supplier/
installer TerraSmart, using every tool in their toolboxes to
deliver the required power production performance from
this challenging project—on budget and on time.
The $60 million Turquoise Solar project, purchased
from Sumitomo Corp. in 2019, is now owned by Greenbacker
Renewable Energy Company. The array is a single-axis
fixed-tilt system with 156,000 bifacial solar modules
supplied by ET Solar, connected to TMEIC Ninja invert-
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