Risks and Rewards of Latin America's Solar Boom [Special Content From NEXTracker]

<p>This week, we’ve got a bonus episode produced in collaboration with NEXTracker.</p><p>It’s all about the risks and rewards of doing business in the roaring Latin American solar market.</p><p>We are speaking with two of the most in-the-know people on the subject.</p><p>We’re joined by Manan Parikh, Wood a solar analyst focused on the Americas for Wood Mackenzie Power &amp; Renewables.&nbsp;</p><p>And we’ll hear from Alejo Lopez, a senior director at NEXTracker, who’s helped grow a 3-gigawatt pipeline of trackers in Latin America — resulting in some of the cheapest and grandest solar projects in the world.&nbsp;</p><p>Auctions in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil are unleashing extremely low prices — between 2 and 3 cents a kilowatt-hour. As a result, the region is actually the strongest for trackers compared to the rest of the world.</p><p>It’s also a pretty crazy place to do business. Every country is very different. Political and economic volatility can make markets super hot one year, and then nonexistent the next. And ultra-low prices aren’t always healthy.</p><p>Still, Wood Mackenzie Power &amp; Renewables projects exponential growth for Latin America — making it 10% of the global market within the next few years.</p><p>So what does exponential growth look like? And what do solar markets based on unsubsidized, extremely low priced projects mean for businesses?&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.nextracker.com/project/nextracker-uses-speed-and-smarts-to-help-build-largest-solar-power-plant-in-the-americas/" target="_blank">Learn about</a> how NEXTracker helped deliver 754 megawatts of trackers to the largest solar project in the Americas.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/dan-shugar-the-king-midas-of-solar" target="_blank">Listen to our episode</a> of <em>Watt It Takes</em> with NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar, a solar pioneer.</p>