Doral Renewables USA

It was an honor to speak in support of the 400 MW @Mammoth North Solar Project upcoming commercial operation in Indiana yesterday; the first phase of the 1300 MW project developed and owned by Doral Renewables USA providing energy to American Electric Power. Congratulations Nick Cohen, Dori Davidovitz, Yaki Noyman, Amit Nadkarni and the rest of team Doral. Shoutout to SOLV Energy who built this system, and other project participants. I spoke about 3 revolutions in progress that relate to this project. The first is the metamorphosis of power generation from fossil to renewables that is underway– and solar’s cost-effectiveness in the upper Midwest (not exactly the peak of the sunbelt) is testament to that. The second is the accelerating marriage of solar + farming and ranching known as “AgriPV”; yesterday Mammoth won “Project of the Year” award at the Solar Farm Summit (currently ~1500 sheep are grazing this project, and additional crop-based AgriPV activities are underway). Finally I spoke to the incredible growth in renewable power manufacturing activity; Nextracker Inc. alone has created or expanded 20 factories in the USA with our partners over the last 3 years; with over a hundred additional clean energy factories commissioned or announced as a result from the IRA in the last few years. I also noted one of our largest raw material suppliers in the USA is Steel Dynamics, Inc, with about 4500 staff in Indiana, producing environmentally-preferred electric arc furnace steel. The State of Indiana economic development agencies have done a terrific job incentivizing smart industry to expand good paying jobs, and connecting jobs to renewable energy projects can help community acceptance and adoption of renewable energy. Doral highlighted additional examples of ranching, farming, food service, recycling, and other local industries the benefitted from the Mammoth project. Other distinguished speakers included David Rosenberg, Governor Eric Holcomb and First Lady Holcomb, Colin Silver and Sarah Beerbower.  Congratulations on your amazing vision and execution team Doral, and best wishes to your continued success.  Shug Barry Schneider, Tommy Scruggs, United Agrivoltaics, Ed Baptista Josh Bennett #Agrivoltaics Ethan Winter, Jonathan Geldard, PMP Solar Energy Industries Association, American Clean Power Association (ACP) #Solar Lexie Hain #Energy Owen Deitcher #Sustainability  #Agriculture Greg Hall, James Macdonald, American Solar Grazing Association (ASGA), Jonathan Eastwood, Howard Wenger, Marco Miller   https://lnkd.in/gYNmHbYS

Nextracker Inc. has been supporting agriculture, ranching, and solar customers with a suite of AgriPV solutions that is highlighted in the attached video that features Yuri Horwitz; we have been demonstrating that solar and farming can be synergistic at our Center of Solar Excellence test facility for the last decade. We are pleased to sponsor the Solar Farm Summit, kicking off today in Chicago. Thank you American Farmland Trust for cosponsoring the summit.  Our AgriPV applications address crop, pollinator, and livestock applications with initial projects fielded in Europe, the USA, and Canada. In Brazil our talented team built an AgriPV research project to evaluate how to optimize crop and livestock objectives in concert with solar power system operations. AgriPV is ramping with excitement, but it is still early days, with new applications being pioneered. We look forward to continuing to work with leading customers to make this model a win-win for farmers, ranchers, and solar power producers. Shug Nick Cohen, United Agrivoltaics, Ed Baptista Josh Bennett #Agrivoltaics Ethan Winter, Jonathan Geldard, PMP #Solar Lexie Hain #Energy Owen Deitcher #Sustainability #Agriculture Lucy Bullock-Sieger, Halley Miklos, Jerry Shinn, Janet Harvey, MBA, Scott Dawson, Matthew Trapeni, JD, MELP, James Macdonald, Brent Huwa, Cody Huwa, American Solar Grazing Association (ASGA), NSEFI - National Solar Energy Federation of India, SolarPower Europe, Lucas Del Mouro, Ricardo Castro, Milena Souza, Josué Ngandu, Sol Hutson, Matthias B. Krause, Ezra Ziegler, J. Juliana Santos, Antoine Wagschal, Kristan Kirsh, Brandy Lee, Beatriz Mateu, Pallavi Singla, https://lnkd.in/gH6FviNK

Excited to announce that I'll be speaking at this year's Solar Farm Summit to share insights about our Mammoth Solar Agrivoltaics experience on Wednesday, July 10 at 9:40 am CT. Join me and our team, along with Billy Bope and his family, who have a three-generation farming heritage and are expanding their legacy with sheep grazing and Agrivoltaics. Don't miss out on Doral Renewables USA's exciting month of good news! #solarfarmsummit #renewableenergy #sustainability #Indiana #agrivoltaics #solarenergy

This morning, Gov. Eric Holcomb spoke on a panel about Indiana’s workforce strategy for the jobs of the future - from renewable energy to electric vehicles. Companies from Portugal to Israel to South Korea are partnering with the brightest minds in Indiana to develop sustainable jobs of tomorrow. In Indiana, examples like Doral Renewables USA’s $1.5 billion Mammoth Solar farm – the largest solar farm project in the country – is bringing innovation to the Hoosier state. Investors like Doral are creating thousands of Hoosier jobs.