SDE's Approach to Solar Racking: What DG Installers Need to Know #348

About this episode

Kyle Sinclair discusses SDE's innovative approach to solar racking and its impact on commercial solar projects.

Solar racking is one of the lowest-cost line items on a DG project and one of the highest-risk failure points. Kyle Sinclair, Co-founder and CEO of SDE (Sinclair Designs and Engineering), joins Tim Montague to explain how USA-made steel and 4-day commercial engineering turnarounds are solving the lead time and logistics failures that slow commercial solar projects. SDE produces 3 megawatts of racking in a single 8-hour shift. On this episode of the Clean Power Hour, host Tim Montague speaks w...

People in this episode

Host: Tim Montague

Guest: Kyle Sinclair

Topics covered

• solar racking
• DG projects
• commercial solar
• engineering
• logistics
• USA-made steel

Keywords

• solar racking
• DG installers
• commercial engineering
• lead time
• logistics failures
• USA-made steel
• SDE

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Organizations: SDE

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