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U.S. tracker installations balance cost with scale

Trackers: Array sizes are rising in the U.S. solar market, even if larger individual trackers may hit the lowest levelized cost of energy. At the same time, solar trackers and other solar applications are beginning to open up to advertising and corporate branding.

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Charles W. Thurston

28 Sep 2012

Tracker installations in the United States are increasing in size as the technology becomes more proven, with economies of scale presenting both advantages and disadvantages of larger and larger array design sizes. At the same time, as trackers become a more familiar part of the U.S. landscape, nascent efforts to link advertising or brand marketing …

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