Featured in Work in progress – 04-2023

Tracking the sun on uneven terrain

Terrain-following trackers – relative newcomers to the solar market – facilitate the installation of solar in hilly locations while reducing the need for grading and site remediation, reports pv magazine USA’s Anne Fischer.
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Anne Fischer
Articulated components can deliver flexibility to tracker systems, allowing them to follow terrain undulations. | Photo: Nevados Engineering

The utility scale solar industry is expecting strong worldwide growth, giving prominence to the question of land use. In the United States, for example, solar generation capacity is expected to rise from around 129 GW today to 335 GW in 2027, according to the “Solar Market Insight Q3 2022” report published by Wood Mackenzie and …

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