MT Solar

10/29/2026

Six mounts. One quarter-acre. Romaine lettuce growing right under the panels.

GRID Alternatives SoCal designed and built a 24 kW array on six MT Solar pole mounts at Cal Poly Pomona's Spadra Farm, Southern California's first agrivoltaics research site focused on commercial crops. The project is led by Pitzer College's Robert Redford Conservancy with Cal Poly Pomona's Huntley College of Agriculture, and funded by a $1.8 million grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.

Why pole mounts? Researchers needed to change the shade on purpose, so every array tilts. And students plant, irrigate, and harvest right beneath them, so each array sits on its own pole with about 8 feet of clearance at the low edge. No ducking, no rebuilding, and a small footprint on the soil.

The early read from Cal Poly Pomona's Eshwar Ravishankar: crops are doing just as well, if not better, under the panels, with less water and fertilizer.

Congrats to GRID Alternatives SoCal crew on the build!

Read the full project story: https://hubs.la/Q04CHL650

📍 Spadra Farm, Cal Poly Pomona · Pomona, CA

Photos: Pitzer College / Robert Redford Conservancy / GRID Alternatives

10/27/2026

Solar for the community and the herd. 🦬☀ Lightspring Solar built this tough, elevated array for Wózu’s buffalo barn at Standing Rock. Bisonvoltaics?

At Wózu Inc.’s buffalo barn on the Standing Rock Reservation, staff relied on generators to keep treating animals and quarantining calves after the power was disconnected. Now, a solar and battery system powers the barn and provides shade for the herd. Indigenized Energy, a Native-led nonprofit f...

10/20/2026

Congrats to the team at PJ Water Pumps & Solar Solutions on their first MT Solar install! 🎉

"Good sturdy product and the team is great to work with from sales, design and delivery."
— Trina Kelly, 5-star review

Here's to many more installs ahead!

10/16/2026

Reliable power, no matter how remote. That's what MT Solar's engineering and build are made for. 🏔️⚡

High in Montana's Garnet Range, this off-grid microgrid runs on our XD (Extra Duty) dual top-of-pole mount — heavy-duty steel I-beams built to shrug off punishing winters, spring squalls, and everything else the mountain throws at it, with passive snow shedding and ground-level tilt adjustment so no one's climbing up there mid-storm.

Five Star Nomadic, Ltd. brought the expertise to build out the system — a smart battery backup system engineered so power is there the moment you need it most, storms or not.

📍 Garnet Range, MT

10/14/2026

Standard beam or EcoBeam? Here's how we think about it.

Our standard beam series ships as a complete kit, with multi-pole configurations built to your exact specs. EcoBeam is the stock-and-go option: a pole mount your distributor keeps on the shelf, ready for pickup, with components you can source locally.

What EcoBeam brings:
• Holds 6-15 modules per pole, depending on module size
• Fits residential and commercial-size modules
• Stocked by distributors for pickup, so you're not waiting on a kit
• Calc packs and PE stamps are available after you pick it up

That last one means you don't need a signed job to buy. Keep a few EcoBeams on hand, and when the next customer says yes, you're ready to go.

Ordering to your exact specs? Standard beam series. Want it fast and flexible? EcoBeam.

10/09/2026

Built to survive the Sierra winter, parked on ground that’s healing itself. ⛰️❄️

Challenge Electric installed two MT Solar pole mounts at Clover Valley Ranch, engineered for 110 mph winds and 144 PSF of snow load at 5,000+ feet in California’s Red Clover Valley.

The ranch is doing its own heavy lifting too. A restoration effort led by The Sierra Fund is projected to sequester nearly 188,000 metric tons of CO2e, working to halt stream erosion and building beaver dam analogs to invite beavers back.

Two mounts. Forty modules. Built for real Sierra winters.

📍 Plumas County, CA

10/06/2026

"Very pleased with MT Solar, the staff, and the product! They were attentive on the phone, answered my questions, and were very helpful. They followed through from the initial call to final delivery... They do what they say, no excuses, and take responsibility. A stand up company with a racking system that is difficult to beat. I will recommend MT Solar to anyone!"
— Jon Mckee

This is the kind of review we work for. 🙌

10/02/2026

Vegas, here we come! ☀️ Catch MT Solar at RE+, Nov 17–19, Booth C7389. Come talk mounts with the people who build them — we're excited to connect with you!

09/29/2026

When the roof doesn't have the space, the ground still does. ☀️

Jeff Laursen at JKL Electric ran into exactly that on this residential project in the Bitterroot Valley — not enough roof to hit the power needs. The fix: a ground-mounted MT Solar pole array, built for the open field instead of the rooftop — and free to face whatever direction and angle gets the most sun, not just whatever way the roof happens to slope.

An easy, ground-level install including adjusting the tilt by hand to dial in the angle for peak output, no ladder required. 💪⚡️

📍 Bitterroot Valley, MT

09/25/2026

On September 16, community solar got a new home in Whitefish, as Flathead Electric Cooperative opened its newest array to the members who made it happen.

It's FEC's third community solar site, and the co-op's first paired with battery storage. Members turned out for the ribbon-cutting and open house to see the panels their own subscriptions helped fund — 368 of the array's 448 panels were purchased directly by FEC members.

Built on MT Solar pole mounts, this is more than infrastructure — it's something the community can walk right up to, ask questions about, and watch power flow.

📍 Whitefish, MT