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In this week's Movers & Shakers segment, PV Tech focuses mainly on executive shifts in US solar companies involved in storage, trackers, residential loans and more. The African Development Bank is also revamping its management board, with a new head of Renewables.

With competition in the tracker marketplace becoming extremely fierce, rival companies are adding new features all the time aimed at minimising installation and operation costs, and enhancing durability. Here we profile some of the single-axis trackers currently available on the market and the innovative design features they offer.

Array Technologies has launched it next generation DuraTrack HZ v3 solar tracking system for utility-scale power plants. DuraTrack HZ v3 offers unique features such as a single-bolt per module clamp and zero scheduled maintenance. This new version is designed to deliver a variety of efficiencies allowing faster installation times, elimination of scheduled maintenance costs and maximizes power plant up-time to deliver optimum LCOE (Levelized Cost of Electricity).

Array Technologies (ATI), one of the world's largest solar tracker manufacturers, has officially surpassed 5.6GW of trackers shipped globally. The company is also celebrating 11,000MW years of tracker operation.

Solar tracker firm Array Technologies (ATI) will demonstrate a new design of its flagship solar tracking product at Intersolar North America, including a wind mitigation system.

US designer and builder of single-axis PV trackers, NEXTracker, ranked as the leading supplier of trackers in North America last year, raising its market share by 22% over 2014, according to IHS.