Featured in Yes, PV can – 10-2014

25 years of optimizing

Trackers: Utility-scale single axis trackers may one day cover much of North Americas Southwest desert, including half a dozen states in the United States and in Mexico. The combination of strong insolation, readily available flat land, lowered cost, and well-refined engineering have made single-axis the design of choice for utility-scale PV installations in the region.

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Charles W. Thurston

01 Oct 2014

“Out of the past 50 plant designs for the Southwest that I have been asked to bid on for an O&M component, all have been single-axis trackers,” says Joe Brotherton, the president of MaxGen Energy Services of Concord, California. The company has more than 300 MW of PV under its operation and management, of which …

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