Featured in Rejuvenation – 06-2013

Revamping designs

Trackers: The global tracker market has come a long way since 2004 when SunPower installed the worlds first large-scale tracker installation, the 10 MW Bavaria Solarpark. Today international tracker manufacturers are hard at work to differentiate themselves from the rising competition by refining design advantages, improving warranties, and cutting prices as more educated customers become more demanding.

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Charles W. Thurston

11 Jun 2013

“There’s quite a bit of competition out there; but a lot of tracker companies are coming into the market with the same knockoff product and not a lot of innovation. These guys are trying to be the low cost provider, but don’t have a history, or bankability, and there are performance delivery questions,” says Ron …

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