Featured in Keep on tracking – 12-2010

Tracking the market

Solar trackers: Just like their products, which follow the sun’s trajectory day in and day out, solar tracker manufacturers are adapting to the ever-changing conditions of the PV market. The two main trends are simplifying installation, and the introduction of products better suited to the climate and regulatory regimes to better exploit emerging market opportunities around the world.

This year saw quite a few tracking system vendors introduce new products. The driver of change is the demand for large utility scale solutions in markets like the U.S. and Italy, as well as smaller-scale PV plants for Ontario, Canada. Less than a handful of the companies surveyed have reduced – or are considering reducing …

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