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Containerized Solar Generator Market Forecasts | Growth Analysis | Trend Prediction

The Insight Partners offers investors a comprehensive study of the Containerized Solar Generator market from the perspective of entrepreneurs in their most recent research report, " Containerized Solar Generator Market Share, Size and Trends Analysis | 2030" Examining current market conditions yields insightful information for businesses.

This report provides insights into market possibilities, obstacles, and incentives that companies shouldn't pass up. It would be a company recipe for success to choose a Containerized Solar Generator market research since consumer-centric firms often provide higher returns on investment. Making a small batch of items won't be enough, given the intense competition in the Containerized Solar Generator market. Businesses may estimate a product's potential and success with the use of market research.

The study is perhaps a perfect mixture of qualitative and quantitative information highlighting key market developments, challenges, and competition the industry faces alongside gap analysis and new opportunities available and trends within the market. The Containerized Solar Generator market report offers market size, recent trends, growth, share, development status, government policy, market dynamics, cost structure, and competitive landscape. The research report also includes the present market and its growth potential in the given period of forecast.

At the heart of our success lies a commitment to rigorous and reliable methodologies. The firm employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, ensuring a holistic understanding of Containerized Solar Generator market analysis dynamics. This includes:

Primary Research: In-depth interviews and surveys with key industry stakeholders provide firsthand insights into Containerized Solar Generator market trends and challenges.

Data Analytics: Advanced data analytics tools and techniques are utilized to process large datasets, uncovering patterns and correlations that might otherwise go unnoticed in calculating the Containerized Solar Generator market size.

Expert Analysis: A team of seasoned analysts with diverse industry expertise meticulously analyzes data to draw actionable conclusions and provide strategic recommendations about the Containerized Solar Generator market forecast.

Key companies in the Containerized Solar Generator market are- 1. Ecosphere Technologies, Inc, 2. Photon Energy N.V., 3. HCI Energy, LLC., 4. Intech GmbH & Co. KG, 5. juwi AG, 6. PWRstation SA, 7. Kirchner Solar Group GmbH, 8. Renovagen Ltd, 9. Silicon CPV Plc., 10. Off Grid Energy Limited

On the Basis of Type this market is categorized further into-

Grid Connected and Off-Grid

On the Basis of Storage Capacity this market is categorized further into-

10-40 KWH

40-80 KWH

80-150 KWH and 150 KWH and More

On the Basis of Application this market is categorized further into-

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

Government and Disaster Relief

On the Basis of Geography this market is categorized further into-

North America

Europe

Asia Pacific

and South and Central America

Key regions Containerized Solar Generator Market Research Report:

North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico)

Europe (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Central & Eastern Europe, CIS)

Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, India, Rest of Asia Pacific)

Latin America (Brazil, Rest of Latin America)

The Middle East and Africa (Turkey, GCC, Rest of the Middle East and Africa)

Rest of the World

This report is an essential resource for businesses seeking to stay ahead of the competition in the Containerized Solar Generator market. With its comprehensive analysis of recent developments and emerging trends, it provides valuable insights into the market that can be used to develop effective growth strategies and improve market positioning. The report aims to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the market analyses. Its objective is to aid readers in devising business growth strategies, assessing the competitive landscape, evaluating their position in the current Containerized Solar Generator market, and making well-informed business decisions. The report presents several market projections for crucial variables such as market size, manufacturing, revenue, consumption, CAGR, gross margin, and price.

How can this research help you in getting business strategically correct?

Exact valuation and key facts about the market | 2030

Value proposition analysis that helps businesses revise their offerings timely

Marketing and segmentation strategies for new entrants in the market

Competitive Containerized Solar Generator market growth strategies for market participants

Latest trends and technologies in the market

Author’s Bio:

Ash Paul

Senior Market Research Expert at The Insight Partners

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Global Containerized Solar Generators Market Research Report 2018

Global Containerized Solar Generators Market Research Report 2018

Get Market Research publishes the following report: Global Containerized Solar Generators Market Research Report 2018

Summary

Date Published: 2018-03-07 00:00:00

Pages: 158

Category: Energy and Natural Resources

Market Segment as follows: By Region Asia-Pacific North America Europe South America Middle East & Africa By Type Below 40 KWH 40 – 80 KWH 80 – 150 KWH Over 150 KWH

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Day 21: Monday, July 10. Filippiada, the third and final camp.

Filippiada (pop. 4,619) is just under five miles from Hotel Marathia, and the volunteers pass through it on their way to the camp in the morning. The town is situated in a narrow strip along a north-south portion of European route E951 (Greek route EO5), at the foot of low hills on the right bank of the Louros. The western edge of the town is densely forested, and about four miles to the northeast, a low mountain ridge rises out of the plain. Though Filippiada is roughly the same size as Katsikas, and both are in mountainous regions, it has a noticeably different feel - here it is less dry, with more trees and less farmland. The town is still largely asleep when the volunteers pass through it.

The Filippiada camp is located around two miles north of the town center, just beyond the town limits, at the intersection of two sections of E951/EO5. Like Alexandreia, it was established on the site of a former air force base. The camp is on a 15-acre gravel-covered plot, behind which is a lightly forested hill. The Greek Air Force and Ministry of Migration Policy, which maintain offices at the camp, are responsible for its management. Filippiada opened in March 2016 with 83 tents and an official capacity of 700 residents. In November of that year, the tents were replaced with containerized housing units, of which there are currently 70. At any given time, there are approximately 300 residents here, most of whom are Syrians (40%), followed by Afghans (25%), Iraqis (25%), Iranians (5%), and Pakistanis (5%). Roughly 30% of the residents are men; 30% are women; and 40% are children.

There is a gate and a guard booth at the camp’s entrance, but a guard is posted only in the afternoons. In the front half of the camp, along the road that leads to the residential half, there are: (on the left side) a gazebo, female-friendly space, offices for UNICEF, UNHCR, and Solidarity Now, as well as a small library; and (on the right side) the military/migration office, two medical tents, a large tea tent, six communal kitchen tents, and three housing units for pregnant women and new mothers. In the residential half of the camp, there are 67 housing units in a dozen rows, a large warehouse (the only permanent structure in the camp, and the center of RS’s operation here), a small lot for solar generators that power the camp, two toilet facilities, a shower facility, and a madrasa tent.

RS arrived at Filippiada in October 2016, and as at Alexandreia, it works alongside other NGOs here to provide dignified aid to residents. Having cleaned up and organized the abandoned warehouse, RS set up a mini-market (with the same points system as at Alexandreia), clothing and shoe boutique, and a large reception area for children’s activities. RS also rents out a small unit in the town that it uses as an overflow warehouse.

Although Filippiada and Arta are relatively accessible from the Filippiada camp, the concerns of residents here largely reflect the lack of a major urban center nearby. Filippiada is quite a bit smaller than Alexandreia, and 36 miles away from Ioannina, Greece’s 25th-largest city; Alexandreia is 32 miles away from Thessaloniki, Greece’s 2nd-largest city (which has an asylum office, too, and is accessible by train); and though Arta is nine miles away, it is barely larger than Alexandreia. There is, at least, a bus that goes between Filippiada and Arta. Still, many of the residents here worry about access to medical care - there are hospitals in Arta and Ioannina, but it would take one or two hours, respectively, to get there from the camp. Over-the-counter medicines can be purchased at the pharmacy in Filippiada. An army doctor and a pediatrician visit the camp weekly, but residents say that there are many weeks when only nurses are present. There is neither a psychologist nor gynecologist at the camp. Limited interpretation is another cause of worry, as there is only an Arabic interpreter and no interpreter for Kurdish, Persian, or Pashto. Electrical outages are common. There are safety concerns, too - in recent weeks, there have been fights with knives and rocks that resulted in the police being called and removing some residents. In September 2016, local parents protested the enrollment of refugee children in the school at Filippiada - as a result, only about 50% of the children here have any kind of formal education.

A. D.’s first day at the camp is spent largely getting to know its and the warehouse’s layouts, as well as helping out in the mini-market. The camp is quieter than Alexandreia, with fewer people out during the day - it is now deep summer, after all, plus Alexandreia had more shade, open space, children, and end-of-Ramadan energy. A few residents come by the shop in the afternoon. Compared to Alexandreia, Filippiada has more families with young children than Alexandreia had, and far fewer single men; and Pashto and Persian are heard as often as Arabic (which has little effect on RS’s work, as neither E. P. nor any of the volunteers speak Arabic, though E. P. understands some). For lunch, the volunteers head to their usual spot in Filippiada town, a little establishment run by a warm older woman who is known as just “Mama”. Her specialty is meatballs, and it would not be a stretch to say that hers are the apex of the genre.

So it is in Filippiada, on the 10th of July.

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Containerized Solar Generators Market 2019 Global Share, Manufacturing Cost Structure and Forecast to 2023

Containerized Solar Generators Market 2019 Global Share, Manufacturing Cost Structure and Forecast to 2023

May 15, 2019: Containerised solar generator is a compact power unit capable of delivering uninterrupted clean power. In the context of China-US trade war and global economic volatility and uncertainty, it will have a big influence on this market. Containerized Solar Generators Report by Material, Application, and Geography – Global Forecast to 2023 is a professional and comprehensive research…

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Data Center Construction Market Scope and Opportunities Analysis 2016 - 2024

A data center is a facility used by an enterprise to accommodate computer systems, server, network systems and other related components to support a company’s IT infrastructural needs. This basically involves storing, processing and serving large amounts of crucial data, which ranges from small servers to robust large industrial scale equipment and dedicated client architecture. The construction of data center is a critical task, which includes extensive planning in terms of location, storage, and material to be used in order to maintain and control environment within the data center. The location is an important factor to be considered while planning to build a data center as it is very necessary to keep the environment cool inside data center. The equipment inside data center such as server and storage are running 24x7 and they generate large amount of heat, which could result in equipment failures, further affecting efficiency of the service provider.

The data center construction market is expected to grow with rise in demand for energy efficient data centers to address the carbon impact of their business and increase utilization of more renewable assets into their ventures. Hence, data centers are aiming to go green, resulting in an increase in use of electricity generated through solar and wind power for data centers. Evaporative cooling, utilization of low-emanation building materials, and waste reusing are a portion of the strategies used in green server farms. Moreover, green server farms help in running IT operations, power, and cooling base in an efficient manner. Additionally, to accommodate ever increasing amount of data, companies are compelled to operate numerous data centers, which are generally located at distant places. This is another factor driving the data center construction market.

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The data center industry is undergoing enormous growth, due to significant rise in online users and increased transactions in recent years. Increasing business demands for cloud-based services and data storage facilities around the globe is a major factor driving the growth of data center construction market. The rapidly-increasing data traffic is accelerating demand for data storage, resulting in constant expansion and renovation of data centers. Moreover, companies are seeking for global expansion of data centers to meet the growing demand from enterprises.

Some of the major restraints for the growth of the data center construction market are lack of necessary resources, and growing popularity of containerized data centers. Containerized data centers provide infrastructure support for organizations having a scarcity of budget for constructing a data center, this eventually decreases the demand for traditional data center. Several countries around the globe also face power outages, which have created unsuitable conditions for operation of data centers. The major players operating in the data center construction market include Corgan Associates, Inc., Holder Construction, Turner Construction, DPR Construction, Structure Tone, Mortenson Construction, Gilbane Inc., Balfour Beatty US, Hensel Phelps, Hoffman Construction, HITT Contracting, Fluor Corporation, IMC Construction, Pepper Construction and FORTIS Construction Inc.

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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This report studies the Containerized Solar Generators market. The key development drivers of the worldwide containerized solar generators market incorporate expanding expense of power delivered by non-renewable energy sources and dropping rate of solar power. Aside from this, vitality created through containerized solar generators is picking up footing because of its non-contaminating component. This is pulling in the consideration of vitality organizations to interface containerized solar generators to the principle control network. Scope of the Report: This report focuses on the Containerized Solar Generators in United States market, to split the market based on manufacturers, states, type and application. Market Segment by Manufacturers, this report covers" Juwi Ameresco Intech Clean Energy REC Solar Jakson Group REDAVIA Kirchner Solar Carnegie Clean Energy Photon Energy Enviroearth Ecosphere Technologies GSOL Energy Off-Grid Europe PWRstation Silicon CPV HCI Energy Market Segment by States, covering California Texas New York Florida Illinois Market Segment by Type, covers Below 40 KWH 40 – 80 KWH 80 - 150 KWH Over 150 KWH Market Segment by Applications, can be divided into Government Industrial Commercial Residential There are 17 Chapters to deeply display the United States Containerized Solar Generators market. Chapter 1, to describe Containerized Solar Generators Introduction, product type and application, market overview, market analysis by States, market opportunities, market risk, market driving force; Chapter 2, to analyze the manufacturers of Containerized Solar Generators, with profile, main business, news, sales, price, revenue and market share in 2016 and 2017; Chapter 3, to display the competitive situation among the top manufacturers, with sales, revenue and market share in 2016 and 2017; Chapter 4, to show the United States market by States, covering California, New York, Texas, Illinois and Florida, with sales, price, revenue and market share of Containerized Solar Generators, for each state, from 2013 to 2018; Chapter 5 and 6, to show the market by type and application, with sales, price, revenue, market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2013 to 2018; Chapter 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, to analyze the key States by Type and Application, covering California, New York, Texas, Illinois and Florida, with sales, revenue and market share by types and applications; Chapter 12, Containerized Solar Generators market forecast, by States, type and application, with sales, price, revenue and growth rate forecast, from 2018 to 2023; Chapter 13, to analyze the manufacturing cost, key raw materials and manufacturing process, etc. Chapter 14, to analyze the industrial chain, sourcing strategy and downstream end users (buyers); Chapter 15, to describe sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, etc. Chapter 16 and 17, to describe Containerized Solar Generators Research Findings and Conclusion, Appendix, methodology and data source.

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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[kiimmmchhi]

NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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NEXTracker Debuts Lithium-Ion Offering, Renames Flow Battery Product

A year ago, NEXTracker launched an innovative solar tracker with flow battery storage built into it. This December, the big new thing looks much more familiar.

The company has taken over a containerized lithium-ion storage product developed by parent company Flext, a major manufacturing firm active around the world. The NX Drive comes in conventional 20- and 40-foot container sizes, but it's a "highly engineered structure" that standardizes the system's electrical, mechanical, thermal and fire suppression needs, said NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar.

The platform gives the customer a range of choices on battery chemistry and inverter architecture. It has already been installed in multiple locations, including a National Renewable Energy Laboratory test facility in Colorado, and customer sites that Shugar declined to disclose.

"Storage is happening and it’s going to scale," he said. "We wanted to make it easy for customers to get involved and also have a really flexible design."

Many an integrator already sells containerized storage aspiring to the platonic ideal of "plug and play." As a newcomer to the field, NEXTracker hopes to leverage a few differentiators.

One is the digital asset management platform, ported over from the long-running solar tracker business. This system monitors equipment performance in the field, sending data back to NEXTracker via a zigbee wireless mesh network.

For a battery system, that means moment by moment monitoring of temperature and cycling, which is crucial to maintaining the cell warranty and optimizing performance. The company backs up that data with "Fort Knox level data security" supplied by Flex.

That corporate parent lends strength in the manufacturing arena, and in the global presence for sales and service, although the initial sales focus is the U.S.

"When NEXTracker takes on a supply chain, we don't mess around," Shugar said. "We have an amazing on-time delivery record. We’re approaching the battery market with the same fortitude."

The business pitch that highlights a corporate parent's global reach has become more popular among storage integrators this year. Now Greensmith can point to Wartsila, Green Charge can mention Engie, Younicos taps into Aggreko and, if the paperwork ever goes through, AES Energy Storage will reach out through Siemens' 160-country sales team.

Simply having a parent company with deep pockets and global reach, then, doesn't differentiate as much as it used to. That said, NEXTracker's years of experience shipping and installing fields of utility-scale solar trackers will count as evidence of the company's logistical wherewithal.

Ultimately, the NX Drive looks and feels like storage solutions being sold by all sorts of companies. But NEXTracker hasn't given up on its wholly unique contribution to the storage market.

The NX Flow puts the flow battery right on the end of the solar tracker. (Photo credit: NEXTracker)

The NX Fusion Plus, announced last year, included vanadium flow battery systems from Avalon Battery attached to a solar tracker at the factory to allow for streamlined workflow and quality control.

NEXTracker pitched the combination as a way to avoid clipped power, which gets lost when generation exceeds the solar inverter’s capacity. The flow system is DC-coupled to the tracker with an Ideal Power inverter, and soaks up any power that would otherwise be clipped.

The system sounded good on paper, which left the crucial question of whether anyone was ready to pay for it.

Almost nobody buys flow batteries yet, despite many a lab scientist's assertions of their superior cycle life and safety. Ideal Power has commercialized promising power conversion technology, but is still a small-cap relative newcomer to the inverter world, and lacks the balance sheet of a SolarEdge or SMA.

The product doesn't appear to have flown off of the shelf. NEXTracker has installed some flow systems at customer sites, Shugar said, but he declined to say where or how much capacity they add up to.

Asked whether the product is ahead of its time, he said he heard the same skepticism when the company launched its independent row trackers, back before it became a market leader.

"There’s a period of specification and development," he said. "We’re going to see this coming year and the next year be breakout years for storage. We are very well positioned with a product that covers a wide range of use."

The only major update to the flow product appears to be a name change: it will henceforth be known as the NX Flow, to maintain a "consistent branding platform."

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