Announcements
Create Energy, OMCO partner to advance utility and C&I solar markets
OMCO Solar and Create Energy have teamed up to expand U.S. domestic solar manufacturing to serve the utility-scale and commercial and industrial (C&I) markets. This collaboration unites two major American solar manufacturing leaders to deliver cutting-edge solar trackers for both current and future products.
Weathering the Terrible Twos: How wind combined with hail or overcast gang up on solar trackers
If someone someday writes a history of the solar tracker industry, the author will surely tell of creativity and hard work by thousands of engineers and scientists, over many years, to make trackers more impervious to extreme weather, while also pushing cost down and energy production up. It’s fun and gratifying to be part of that team – an international collective who have mostly never met each other.
OMCO Solar Operates the Four Largest Solar Tracker Manufacturing Plants in the US
OMCO has been in the business of manufacturing since 1955 and manufactures all of their OMCO Solar Products at their 6 US plants. The most recent investment of over $10MM at their all new and state-of-the-art Huntsville, Alabama Operations, brings a total manufacturing base of over $95MM in manufacturing assets. Benefits of factory-direct operations across OMCO Solar’s nationwide manufacturing footprint include the shortest lead times in the industry.
OMCO Solar plans Huntsville manufacturing facility with 70 jobs
Commerce Secretary Ellen McNair announced today that Phoenix, Arizona-based OMCO Solar, one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of steel structures for solar panels, plans to invest over $10 million into its second production facility in Alabama, creating 70 full-time jobs in Limestone County.
Steeling share: OMCO Solar’s factory-direct strategy built for solar’s domestic content era
The dawn of the domestic content era has begun in the United States solar industry, and arguably no tracker manufacturer is better positioned to support it than OMCO Solar.
Tracking the growth of domestic solar tracker manufacturing
The solar tracker manufacturing market in the United States has seen rapid growth over the past year and a half thanks to tax incentives within the IRA.
OMCO Solar Expands with Sixth U.S. Manufacturing Plant
OMCO Solar, a factory-direct manufacturer of solar trackers and fixed-tilt solutions, is opening a new manufacturing facility in Alabama, its second in the state and sixth in the United States.
US solar industry navigates ‘growing pains’ as power sector leader
The US solar industry is radiating a new level of confidence, emboldened by lucrative long-term tax incentives in the landmark US clean energy law signed by President Joe Biden in August 2022.
Solar Tracker Producer Announces 6th US Factory; Wins Module Backrail Award From First Solar
Solar trackers and fixed-tilt solutions manufacturer OMCO Solar has announced its 6th US manufacturing facility.
Record-setting RE+ 2023 shows how U.S. solar industry is going mainstream
A horde of 40,000 solar + storage industry enthusiasts overran the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas last week at the 2023 RE+ renewable energy show — a horde that included Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps.
OMCO Solar opens 6th US factory producing racking and trackers
OMCO Solar opens US manufacturing facility, signs module backrail supply deal with First Solar
OMCO Solar opens fifth mounting manufacturing facility in the United States
OMCO Solar’s fifth U.S. manufacturing facility opens with new torque tube line
Solar-parts maker picks Warsaw
Solar power company celebrates opening of Indiana manufacturing plant
OMCO Celebrates Company’s Renewable Energy Products