Featured in The fertile solar crescent – 01-2018

The next segment for trackers?

C&I trackers: Trackers have already taken over the utility-scale U.S. solar market segment, but the potentially bigger commercial and industrial segment has been largely ignored by tracker makers, EPCs, and developers. However, this could be about to change, as players in this segment look to trackers for their next move.

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Charles W. Thurston

16 Jan 2018

With diminishing utility-scale site availability and rapidly increasing tracker competition, the C&I segment seems poised for exponential growth in tracking technology, on advances in marketing with models like community solar, and advances in financing and technology.“There is tremendous opportunity in commercial and industrial tracker growth, especially in the sub 1 MW range. Our team size …

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