{"id":141458,"date":"2022-07-01T00:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nextracker-bci-steel-renovate-abandoned-pittsburgh-steel-factory-to-serve-growing-u-s-utility-scale-solar-market"},"modified":"2022-07-01T00:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:23:34","slug":"nextracker-bci-steel-renovate-abandoned-pittsburgh-steel-factory-to-serve-growing-u-s-utility-scale-solar-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nextracker-bci-steel-renovate-abandoned-pittsburgh-steel-factory-to-serve-growing-u-s-utility-scale-solar-market","title":{"rendered":"Nextracker &amp; BCI Steel Renovate Abandoned Pittsburgh Steel Factory to Serve Growing U.S. Utility-Scale Solar Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nextracker-bci-steel-renovate-abandoned-pittsburgh-steel-factory-to-serve-growing-u-s-utility-scale-solar-market2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Nextracker\u2019s third new factory, adding to the company\u2019s new Texas and Arizona factories announced in April and May, towards building 10 GW of annual domestic solar tracker capacity. Courtesy of Nextracker \u2014 by Pallavi Singla.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextracker.com\/\">Nextracker LLC<\/a>, the global market leader in utility-scale solar trackers, and BCI Steel, a Pittsburgh-based steel fabricator, this week announced the reopening of the historic Bethlehem Steel manufacturing factory in nearby Leetsdale to produce solar tracker equipment for large-scale solar power plants.<\/p>\n<p>The steel processing plant will incorporate both BCI Steel\u2019s new and reshored equipment shipped to the U.S. from factories in Malaysia and Brazil. Solar tracker products produced at the factory will serve rapidly growing solar markets in Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York, and Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBCI is proud to advance Pittsburgh\u2019s legacy as the heart of America\u2019s steel industry,\u201d said Matt Carroll, CEO of BCI Steel. \u201cThis partnership with Nextracker showcases our steel fabrication and quality control technology and unlocks additional domestic solar capacity with our low-cost manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Nextracker\u2019s third new factory, adding to the company\u2019s new Texas and Arizona factories announced in April and May, towards building 10 GW of annual domestic solar tracker capacity. Courtesy of Nextracker \u2014 by Pallavi Singla. Nextracker LLC, the global market leader in utility-scale solar trackers, and BCI Steel, a Pittsburgh-based steel fabricator, this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}