Passion leads to prosperity for dual-axis tracker manufacturer
SOLAR BUILDER MAGAZINE
The roots of Stracker Solar were formed in the mid-1970s when founder and COO Jeff Sharpe began designing and installing “bread box” solar water heaters with his father in Southern California’s San Joaquin Valley.
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ashland, Oregon, Stracker Solar grew out of the community-based energy engineering business Sharpe founded a decade earlier, Sharpe Energy Solutions Inc. (SES). Since then, Stracker Solar has become the premier provider of dual-axis trackers in the solar industry. These pole-mounted trackers maximize both the energy production from PV panels and the usable space where the project is located, making them ideal solutions for mixed-use and urban sites where space is a commodity.
“Our pole-mounted, elevated dual-axis trackers are optimal for distributed generation at multi-use sites in the commercial and industrial (C&I) and community solar market segments,” Sharpe says. “We are currently targeting 200 kW to 2 MW project sizes. Ideal sites include parking lots, industrial and agricultural operations, campuses, open fields and any open space where continued use of ground below has value.”