Tectonicus Constructs LLC

Our Solar River pilot (Solar over canal) project was featured in a Canary Media article this morning! https://lnkd.in/g64s8d8U

Around May 20'th 2024 the first full-scale Solar River project was installed over the Casa Blanca canal on the Gila River Indian Community lands. This is the first of it's kind in the western hemisphere. The project is comprised pre-fabricated and modular patented structures allowing panel installation time over a flowing canal to be just a few days for a 1.3 MW project. Funding from Biden's IRA via Reclamation. Initial conceptual and scientific research funding to Tectonicus by Department of Energy SBIR research grant with University of Arizona, UC Merced, and PNNL. Engineer of record, George Cairo Engineering, design and patent by Tectonicus. Construction by Straight Arrow Contractors a native-owned company. https://lnkd.in/gavqfc_u

I'm glad to see the frames getting bolted together and prepped to be lifted onto a running, operating canal! We cannot forget the #1 purpose of these canals is to grow food and provide water, so any auxiliary benefit like generating clean energy cannot get in the way! #SolarRiver

Check out the latest issue of Irrigation Leader which features a four page spread about our Solar River projects under construction and the scientific research that supports these projects. https://lnkd.in/g4d7eKrv

"But many local officials say giving states the power to site large-scale energy projects clashes with cherished U.S. political principles. Local officials, they say, are the public servants closest to and most directly accountable to voters. They argue that’s especially important when it comes to land use and what gets built near homes." I mean it is a core tenant of democracy, getting a say in what happens in your backyard, and NOT being treated as a 'sacrifice zone'. The best way out of this is to keep the energy generation footprint as light as possible by keeping local to the energy use and sharing the profits through local taxes or good local jobs. Without this public support for green energy will quickly continue to erode, as the immediate local effects will shout louder then an abstract but just as the real local Arizona global warming effects like wildfire and flash-flooding.