Array wins 260 MW tracker job

Array Technologies has been picked to supply trackers for a 260 megawatt solar project in Karaman, Türkiye, under the country’s large-scale YEKA program. (arraytechinc.com) The companies said the selection was announced April 9, 2026, with Pekintaş Group backing the project and its engineering subsidiary, Schmid Pekintaş Investment Energy, handling engineering, procurement and construction work. STC Solar will deliver the tracker technology and perform mechanical installation. (arraytechinc.com) The site is in Karaman province, and PV Tech reported it is in the Ayrancı district of Central Anatolia. Schmid Pekintaş will provide the solar modules using TOPCon+ cells made by Turkish manufacturer P-Tech Solar. (pv-tech.org) A tracker is the steel structure and motor system that turns solar panels to follow the sun through the day, raising output versus fixed-tilt rows. Array said it will use its OmniTrack system, which is designed to follow uneven ground so developers can cut grading on sloped sites. (arraytechinc.com) This order sits inside Türkiye’s Renewable Energy Resource Areas program, known as YEKA, which the Energy Ministry uses to steer big solar and wind projects with industrial policy attached. The ministry said the YEKA GES-2024 round covered six solar projects in six provinces with total capacity of 800 megawatts. (enerji.gov.tr) Karaman was one of those six sites, with 200 megawatts of connection capacity listed in the November 4, 2024 tender notice. The ministry set an initial ceiling price of 5.50 US cents per kilowatt-hour and a base price of 3.25 cents per kilowatt-hour. (enerji.gov.tr) By February 2025, Türkiye had awarded all 800 megawatts from the YEKA GES-2024 tender, with the final tariff set at $0.0325 per kilowatt-hour over 20 years. The ministry said 67 domestic and foreign companies submitted 146 project proposals for the six sites. (pv-magazine.com) The procurement rules also push local manufacturing. The ministry said the tender required at least 75% local content in the modules, and Array said this Karaman project will be its first YEKA job in Türkiye to include locally manufactured content. (pv-magazine.com, arraytechinc.com) Türkiye’s solar market is already much larger than it was a few years ago. The Energy Ministry says solar made up 21% of installed power capacity by the end of February 2026, with total national capacity at 124,320 megawatts. (enerji.gov.tr) The same ministry says it wants Türkiye to reach 120,000 megawatts of combined solar and wind capacity by 2035, and YEKA is one of the tools it is using to get there. For Array, the Karaman award is a first foothold in that pipeline; for Pekintaş, it is one of the earliest visible supply-chain decisions after the 2025 tender awards. (enerji.gov.tr, arraytechinc.com)