The US remains the largest tracker market, with trackers the standard choice for utility-scale solar projects
India and the Middle East are emerging growth engines, while markets such as Uzbekistan and Romania are beginning to gain momentum
Global tracker shipments reached about 112 GW in 2024, with the US, India, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Brazil accounting for around 70% of demand
The demand for trackers and their deployments vary considerably across regions worldwide. The top market remains the US, with a near-monopoly status in utility projects. Trackers are already the standard choice in the US, Spain, and Latin America, according to Iván Soto San Andrés, Corporate Market Intelligence Coordinator at Soltec. A few experts in the segment that TaiyangNews spoke to unanimously acknowledged that India and the Middle East are the top emerging markets. In India, annual installation volumes that were once 2-5 GW have now grown to monthly GW-levels, driven by policy and industrial demand, according to Harsh Vardhan Sharma, Marketing & Events Manager – AMEA at PVH. FTC, in addition to India, sees new hotspots in unexpected places. Uzbekistan is now doing around 2 GW annually, while the Baltics and countries such as Romania are also showing promise, according to the company.
Opinions are mixed on Europe. Solar Steel sees strong potential for trackers across Eastern Europe, describing the region as a natural market that is growing quickly, with active project supply in Romania, Poland, Germany, and Hungary. Soltec’s San Andrés emphasizes that trackers are gaining share in Central and Eastern Europe and even in some Nordic countries, as the ‘duck curve’ effect – the mismatch between electricity demand and solar power generation – is normalizing to some extent. While the European utility-scale market grew strongly, reaching a share of over 50% of new PV additions in the EU in 2025, overall market growth is stagnating. However, even traditionally large utility markets such as Spain, which remains the dominant tracker market on the continent, are facing significant challenges due to grid congestion, negative power prices, and curtailment. Although trackers are widely deployed, further substantial market growth in countries with over 20% solar power shares will depend increasingly on battery storage to provide the flexibility needed to stabilize the system and increase the value of solar power (see The Structural Evolution Of Solar Trackers).
China, the largest market and manufacturing hub, has, however, been a tough nut to crack for trackers so far. YunHua (Kevin) Shu, Deputy Director of Product Management at TrinaTracker, first emphasizes the potential for trackers, estimated at 150 GW of annual utility and commercial ground-mounted installations. However, more than 90% of these still use fixed-tilt systems, with only 7 to 8% employing trackers. Shu attributes the low penetration to grid imbalance between western generation regions and eastern load centers, as well as extreme price sensitivity. In some cases, developers selected low-cost, low-reliability products, leading to early technical issues, reinforcing the perception that trackers are complex and risky. While China's new solar market design even adds to the cost pressure on developers, it might also provide an opportunity for trackers.
Providing a global perspective, 2 leading market research firms, S&P Global and Wood Mackenzie, have released reports on the trackers segment. Both reports emphasize significant growth in the segment – in fact, nearly identical. S&P Global’s analysis, released in September 2025, estimated that global solar tracker shipments in 2024 increased 19% year over year to 112 GW, up from 94 GW in 2023. Wood Mackenzie’s Global Solar PV Tracker Market Share 2024 report, published in June 2025, estimates nearly the same; the global tracker market reached 111 GW DC in 2024, marking a 20% increase over the previous year and the strongest year on record.
The reports also provide a region-wise assessment of tracker uptake. The S&P report notes that growth was driven primarily by India and Saudi Arabia, while most other regions showed relatively flat demand. The top 5 markets are the US, India, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Brazil, which together account for about 70% of the market size (see Solar Trackers Drive System Value In Utility PV).
The report further emphasizes that Saudi Arabia continues to lead in terms of growth, supported by large-scale project development and strong utility-scale demand, which is expected to further accelerate shipments in the coming years. India also recorded notable growth, driven by rising confidence in tracker technology and increasing collaboration between major suppliers and local EPC companies. The country’s proximity to the equator and low labor costs further enhance its suitability for tracker deployment. Wood Mackenzie noted that the US remained the largest destination for solar trackers in 2024, with deployment of around 33 GW DC. However, the market declined by about 9% year over year, marking a rare contraction after several years of sustained growth. In Europe, Spain recorded its highest tracker demand ever during the year.
The text is an edited excerpt from TaiyangNews’ latest Market Survey on Solar Trackers 2026, which can be downloaded for free here.