Modular Solar platform for farmers ranchers and elec co-ops

TrackerSled's prefabrication, plug-n-play modularity simplifies solar development so farmers, ranchers and rural electrical cooperatives can develop solar farms without a solar developer. TrackerSleds are agnostic to topography and underground conditions, vastly increasing the amount of land available for solar farms.

Instead of manually constructing solar farms from tens of thousands of pieces on-site after precisely driving posts into surveyed land, crews will build TrackerSleds from 16 prefabricated assemblies in a common staging area accessible to semis and served by support facilities. Teams will prefabricate 90 percent of a TrackerSled offsite, including the skis, lateral supports, posts, and PV module racks.  Continued..

Rural Electric Member Cooperatives (REMCs) serve 92% of US counties with a greater than 20% poverty rate, concentrated in Appalachia, Southeast, US-Mexico border and around Native American Reservations. With TrackerSled solar farms,  rural electric cooperatives can become pilots instead of passengers during the energy transition.  Aided by the US's Justice40 initiative, rural electric cooperatives can leverage capital through the USDA's Rural Energy for America Program and other existing economic development programs.

When viewed through the lenses of Distribution Equity, Procedural Equity, and Recognition Equity, TrackerSled offers rural economies a way to change the status quo.

Distribution Equity focuses on the distribution of benefits and burdens. Procedural Equity focuses on including underrepresented groups. Recognition Equity addresses historic intragenerational and intergenerational inequities. Continued..

Regenerative farming and ranching is the most scalable, affordable, and immediate solution to climate change, but its adoption has been anemic. Only one percent of US farmers have transitioned their operations, despite objective science and its profitability. TrackerSled will alter the balance of risk and return for farmers, ranchers, and their communities. When farmers and ranchers generate solar energy with TrackerSleds, they can aggregate their power to produce green hydrogen locally to provide all the energy to run their tractors a future decade. Until then,  farmers and ranchers can experiment with regenerative practices on TrackerSled fields to improve their bottom lines while drawing down immense quantities of carbon.  

Of the top twenty climate change solutions identified by Drawdown.org, eight involve the food system, which remains mostly unchanged since WWII. Although wind turbines and solar farms are top-ten solutions, renewable energy can only slow climate change - it can't reverse it like photosynthesis can. Continued...