Nextracker, announced that its founder and CEO Dan Shugar was named Chief Trailblazer of the Year at S&P Global’s 25th Annual Platts Global Energy Awards. Judges selected Mr. Shugar for his leadership and contributions to industry-critical solar technology innovation supporting the global energy transition to more reliable, secure, and cleaner energy.
Under Dan’s leadership, Nextracker successfully pioneered and commercialized the industry’s first independent-row, single-axis solar tracker systems and software solutions that optimize and increase energy production for utility-scale and ground-mounted distributed generation solar projects. Now with more than 85-gigawatts capacity across six continents, Nextracker’s proprietary technology helps plant owners overcome a broad range of topographical and climate conditions to produce more energy, lower operating costs and deliver significant ROI advantages.
Through technology innovation and establishing domestic manufacturing capacity partnerships, Dan Shugar is committed to introducing solutions to reduce costs to accelerate global scaling of global energy. An engineer by training and technology pioneer in the global solar power sector for 35 years, Dan Shugar has served in leadership positions and has been integral to the success of several solar power companies. Most recently, he founded Nextracker, now regarded as a market leader and one of the most successful solar technology companies in the world today demonstrated by its successful initial public offering in February this year on the Nasdaq exchange. Mr. Shugar has also appeared as a keynote speaker for several global business, financial and solar technology conferences around the world and has published over 50 technical publications.
S&P Global Commodity Insights, the leading global independent provider of data, insights, analysis and benchmark prices for the commodities, energy and energy transition markets, honored winners from a dozen countries at the Platts Global Energy Awards gala held at the Cipriani Wall Street in downtown New York City on Dec. 7, 2023. The Awards program, now in its 25th year and often described as the “Oscars of the energy industry,” recognizes corporate and individual innovation, leadership, and performance in the energy and petrochemicals sectors, and bestows honors on companies from all over the world.
Saugata Saha, President of S&P Global Commodity Insights, said: “At this celebratory quarter-of-a-century milestone for the Platts Global Energy Awards, we are particularly honored by the industry’s continued recognition of the program as the energy industry’s longstanding premier awards event and welcome the opportunity to congratulate not only the finalists and winners of 2023 but those across the history of the event. Each has contributed not only to a better energy future, but in recent years, has demonstrated an enhanced commitment to greater community service, energy security and a more sustainable energy transition.”
SOURCE : BusinessWire