Doug Krause on Cattle Solar & Cable-Mounted PV

Doug Krause on Cattle Solar & Cable-Mounted PV

July 10, 2026 · 1h 8m · Season 1 · Episode 23

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Vikram interviews Doug Krause about the future of utility-scale solar and the innovations at RUTE SunTracker.

Send us Fan Mail Vikram interviews Doug Krause, president and founder of RUTE SunTracker, for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of utility-scale solar. Doug traces his path from commercial fishing in Alaska and tensile-membrane cable work across Europe to mechanical engineering and solar project finance, and explains how that mix led to RUTE's patented cable-based mounting system, the same structural principle used in suspension bridges and ship rigging, applied to PV. They dig into ...

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