Photo by Tim Barber /Times Free Press.
Recently Greg Pawson and Julian Bell of Signal Energy sat down with Mike Pare of the Chattanooga Times Free Press to discuss the company’s 2019 outlook. Here’s an excerpt of the story which ran on Sunday, February 3, 2019:
With tariffs on solar panels taking some sizzle out of that market in 2018, a Chattanooga company says business is heating back up with plans for its biggest-ever project and a push into Australia.
Signal Energy Constructors, which designs and builds utility-scale solar installations, is readying large projects in Texas, Georgia and Australia, said company President Greg Pawson.
The over 600 megawatt array in Texas is the largest the company has ever done and one of the nation’s biggest, he said.
“We’ll start design this year,” Pawson said about the company that’s owned by Chattanooga-based construction giant EMJ Corp.
Also, the business founded in 2005 last year opened an office in Australia, where it’s working on what will be the biggest solar array in that country, he said.
Signal Energy has been picked to build a 333 megawatt solar plant in New South Wales, Pawson said.
That installation will produce enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 115,000 homes and displace more than 600,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the company said.
To read the full story, visit: Chattanooga solar power array maker takes on its biggest-ever project.
Signal Energy is the renewable energy subsidiary of EMJ Corporation. Signal Energy, is a leading full service design/build contractor providing Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services for utility-scale renewable energy projects. Signal Energy Australia opened January 2018 and is headquartered in Sydney.
Julian Bell. Photo by Tim Barber, Chattanooga Times Free Press. 
Greg Pawson. Photo by Tim Barber, Chattanooga Times Free Press. 
Workers for Chattanooga-based Signal Energy.