Featured in On the right track – 11-2015

Solar trackers rise to global demand

Trackers: The global demand curve for solar trackers is heading straight up, very quickly. The tracker industry is moving at about 1,000 mph now, because trackers significantly enhance the financial value of PV solar as a generation asset, says Thomas Conroy, President of Array Technologies, the largest provider of trackers in the world.

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Charles W. Thurston

22 Oct 2015

The numbers are awesome. Single-axis trackers are already the most popular PV ground-mounted installation in the Americas and within four years, the 9 GW global market is estimated to hit a value of $2 billion, say solar analysts IHS. Grandview Research predicts 26 GW of trackers by 2022. “Solar trackers are now fully viable and …

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