The 1.4 Gigawatt Solar Construction Wave 2026: Inside Zelestra's Eight-Project Meta Portfolio and How Contractors Break Into Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Work Before Peak Mobilization

Deep-dive on Zelestra's expanded US solar partnership with Meta - 1.4 GW across eight projects, all online by 2028, including the new 180 MWdc Palmera Solar PPA in Texas, the 176 MWdc Skull Creek plant in Anderson County TX, and the 200 MWdc Reclamation project in Gibson County IN. Covers why data center demand is now the engine of utility-scale solar construction, where the work actually lands (rural counties, not metro cores), which trades are in demand, and the 18-24 month positioning window An earlier upload of this episode briefly contained audio from another program and was removed; this is the correct episode.