About
This Report
On January 2, 2024, Nextracker LLC, completed our separation from Flex to become a fully-independent company. This report helps set the foundation for Nextracker’s rapidly evolving sustainability strategy, policies, process, and programs.
As we continue to build and advance our sustainability initiatives, infrastructure, and achievements, subsequent reports will feature data regarding our progress toward our goal of leading an ethically managed and increasingly sustainable business. In this report, you will learn the details on where we stand as an organization when it comes to critical sustainability topics.
Report Scope
Our reporting scope varies by data set. The qualitative information included in this report is through July 2024. Data references and data tables note specific scope references: greenhouse gas (GHG) data and health and safety metrics are based on calendar year 2023 (CY23) information, while data points such as employee demographic information report date from fiscal year 2024 (FY24: April 2023 to March 2024).
Looking forward, our goal will be to align with our fiscal year, which ends on March 31 of each year.
Global Reporting Framework Alignment
This report highlights our first independent response to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standard for the Electrical & Electronic Equipment industry. The table can be found in the Appendix. In each section of this report, we will reference the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) to which Nextracker contributed.
Members of our ESG Executive Council, ESG Steering Committee, Executive Leadership Team, and various subject matter experts (SMEs) reviewed this report, and our internal Audit Team reviewed the sustainability reporting process.
We invite you to find additional information related to our performance in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Proxy Statement and on our company website.
Materiality
We report against our material sustainability topics identified through our internal materiality assessments and our stakeholder engagement. We use the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) definition of materiality*, which is different from the definition used for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The inclusion of information in this report should not be construed as a characterization regarding the materiality or financial impact of that information for U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting purposes. For additional information that is material to Nextracker, including information on the factors that could impact our ability to execute our strategy and other material risks to our business, please see our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
*GRI defines material topics as those that reflect the organization’s significant economic, environmental, and social impacts that substantively influence the assessments and decisions of stakeholders.
Forward-Looking Statements
This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than historical factual information are forward-looking statements, including without limitation statements regarding: our strategies, mission, plans, objectives and goals; our relationships with our customers, suppliers, contractors, vendors and employees; the focal points of our ESG strategic framework and our strategies to address such points; our ability to develop and enforce policies in furtherance of our ESG strategies; our ability to ensure compliance of our suppliers, contractors, vendors and employees with applicable laws and corporate policies; estimates of the cost of solar, our carbon offsets, installation and operations savings, energy yields, and improvements to levelized cost of energy; projections regarding the U.S. and global demand for solar and our addressable market and market size; macro-economic trends; panel availability; growth opportunities and plans for future operations, products and services; the expansion of our U.S. manufacturing and production volumes and domestic content capability; our bookings and backlog; our ability to integrate our recent acquisitions on the timelines we expect, and the expected benefits we expect for our customers and us; and any other statements that address events or developments that we intend or believe will or may occur in the future.
Terminology such as “will,” “may,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “target,” “possible,” “potential,” “forecast” and “positioned” and similar references to future periods are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements are accompanied by such words. Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and assessments made by our management in light of their experience and perceptions of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors they believe to be appropriate, and speak only as of the date of this report.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or other events to be materially different from any future results, performance or other events expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Our actual future results, performance or other events may be materially different from what we expect. Important factors that could cause actual results, performance or other events to differ materially from our expectations include: the demand for solar energy and, in turn, our products; competitive pressures within the solar tracker industry; competition from conventional and other renewable energy sources; variability in our results of operations, including as a result of fluctuations in our customers’ businesses as well as seasonal weather-related disruptions; the reduction, elimination or expiration of government incentives for or regulations mandating the use of, renewable energy and solar energy, including the IRA 45X vendor tax credit rebates; our reliance on our suppliers and any problems with our suppliers or disruptions in our supply chain, and supply chain capacity; changes in the global trade environment, including the imposition of import tariffs; an increase in interest rates, or a reduction in the availability of tax equity or project debt financing, impacting the ability of project developers and owners to finance the cost of a solar energy system; a loss of one or more of our significant customers, their inability to perform under their contracts, or their default in payment to us; defects or performance problems in our products; delays, disruptions or quality control problems in our product development operations; severe weather events, natural disasters and other catastrophic events; our continued expansion into new markets; electric utility industry policies and regulations; decreases in the price of electricity; our failure to protect our intellectual property and trade secrets or to successfully defend against third-party claims of infringement; evolving sustainability strategies; evolving government regulations; and cybersecurity or other data incidents. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the our business in general, see our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2024, and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 28, 2024, and any current and periodic reports filed thereafter.
Except as required by law, we assume no obligation and do not intend to update these forward-looking statements or to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in our expectations, even if new information becomes available in the future.
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