Funding bolsters Silicon Ranch’s agribusiness and land stewardship program whereas enabling Swap Robotics to develop operations and product improvement throughout the photo voltaic sector
Silicon Ranch, the developer, proprietor, and operator of one of many nation’s largest fleets of photo voltaic amenities, at present introduced a strategic funding in Swap Robotics, a pioneer in utility-scale photo voltaic robotic operations by its main photo voltaic robotics platform. As a part of the funding, Silicon Ranch Co-Founder and CEO Reagan Farr will be a part of the board of administrators at Swap Robotics.
Silicon Ranch is an business chief that makes a speciality of photo voltaic power, agrivoltaics, and carbon options and employs a full-stack strategy from improvement to long-term possession and operation of its power infrastructure initiatives, together with the underlying actual property. The corporate is uniquely dedicated to land stewardship practices that restore and protect the land beneath and round its arrays, and thru its wholly-owned agribusiness, Regenerative Power®, Silicon Ranch integrates regenerative ranching and different land stewardship practices that restore soil well being, promote biodiversity, and enhance water high quality at its websites. Swap Robotics’ 100% electrical, autonomous robots align seamlessly with Silicon Ranch’s excessive requirements for land administration, innovation, and environmental stewardship.
“As a part of Silicon Ranch’s dedication to asset possession and financial improvement, we personal our land quite than lease it, and accordingly we embrace our duties as land stewards by our agribusiness Regenerative Power®,” stated Silicon Ranch Co-Founder and CEO Reagan Farr. “For the previous couple of years, our workforce has explored a number of choices to enhance the managed livestock grazing actions of our shepherds and our company-owned flock of sheep. Following a profitable pilot of Swap Robotics’ expertise, we decided that the mission, operational mannequin, and robust management workforce at Swap Robotics align effectively with our imaginative and prescient of innovatively scaling a totally built-in agrivoltaics program that may be deployed throughout our fleet from coast to coast. We’re happy to make this strategic funding in Swap Robotics to assist develop its enterprise for the good thing about our complete business.”
The funding from Silicon Ranch follows earlier important investments in Swap Robotics, together with a $7 million funding spherical led by SOLV Power in February 2023 and a $3 million funding from Array Applied sciences (NASDAQ: ARRY) in November 2024. This extra funding from Silicon Ranch will assist propel Swap’s momentum because it seeks to develop additional inside the North American photo voltaic sector, having already maintained 1000’s of acres of photo voltaic websites by dozens of robots deployed.
“Quickly after our founding in 2019, we got down to be the class creator of a photo voltaic robotics platform,” stated Swap Robotics Founder and CEO Tim Lichti. “This newest funding acknowledges our place as a frontrunner within the class and permits us to proceed innovating and increasing in what continues to be an early and quickly rising business in North America. It is also an amazing vote of confidence coming from Silicon Ranch, a revered pioneer and chief in photo voltaic improvement, operations, and sustainable land administration.”
Silicon Ranch presently owns roughly 50,000 acres of land—a quantity that may greater than double within the subsequent few years—and its Asset Administration workforce was impressed by Swap’s progressive, purpose-built robots that mix effectivity with superior autonomous expertise. The robots will be rapidly deployed throughout massive websites, complementing Silicon Ranch’s personal flock of sheep for vegetation administration. Moreover, Swap’s battery-powered robots can function each through the day and at night time, and they’re considerably quieter in comparison with typical mowers.
About Silicon Ranch
Based in 2011, Silicon Ranch is a totally built-in supplier of custom-made photo voltaic power, battery storage, and carbon options. The corporate is among the largest unbiased energy producers within the U.S., with a portfolio that features greater than seven gigawatts of photo voltaic and battery storage techniques which can be contracted, beneath building, or working throughout the U.S. and Canada. Silicon Ranch owns and operates each undertaking in its portfolio and has maintained an unrivalled observe document of undertaking execution. Silicon Ranch has the most important wholly-owned agrivoltaics portfolio within the nation beneath Regenerative Power®, its nationally acknowledged agribusiness and holistic strategy to undertaking design, building, and land stewardship. This mannequin incorporates regenerative ranching and different regenerative land stewardship practices to revive soil well being, promote biodiversity, and enhance water high quality. Silicon Ranch’s carbon options platform, Clearloop®, helps companies of all sizes reclaim their carbon footprint by commissioning new photo voltaic initiatives in American communities the place important financial and environmental advantages will be achieved. Observe Silicon Ranch on Fb, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
About Swap Robotics
Swap Robotics is a number one robotics firm for utility-scale photo voltaic building, operations and upkeep. Swap Robotics is the class creator of photo voltaic robotics platforms. Within the O&M section, Swap robots handle what will be the only largest line-item expense for utility-scale photo voltaic websites: managing the vegetation. Each the {hardware} and software program of Swap’s 100% electrical robotics platform is designed and constructed in-house. Having pioneered the world’s first 100% electrical “tough lower” and offsettable slicing decks, Swap robots lower the vegetation on 1000’s of acres of photo voltaic websites. The Swap Robotics platform may handle the only largest labor expense within the EPC section: laying photo voltaic panels. Moreover, the photo voltaic robotics platform can carry out robotic supplies motion on photo voltaic websites, corresponding to staging i-beams, torque tubes and pallets of photo voltaic panels. Swap’s sensible strategy is the results of Swap workers and robots having labored on photo voltaic websites for years. Swap Robotics has investments from a number of world leaders within the photo voltaic business, together with the world’s largest photo voltaic EPC and O&M, the world’s second largest photo voltaic monitoring firm, and a few of USA’s largest photo voltaic asset house owners and photo voltaic vegetation administration corporations. Swap’s ten-year objective is to be the clear world chief in utility-scale photo voltaic robotics. Swap is on a mission to hurry the clear power transition by changing into the main out of doors work robotics platform. Observe Swap Robotics on LinkedIn.
