US added more solar than any other technology in 2025, but is down 14% from 2024 nytimes.com 12 points by epistasis 25 days ago
saltyoldman 25 days ago so tracking isn't really working I guess it's a story about tracking solar epistasis 25 days ago The article doesn't mention tracking, why would you say it's not working?Slide 25 here shows that 99% of new utility installs in 2024 were single-axis trackers, because costs have fallen so farhttps://emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10/Utility%20Sc...What's different about 2025? saltyoldman 25 days ago I don't know, it's a paywalled site. epistasis 25 days ago It's still completely unclear to me why you'd say an obviously false thing like "tracking isn't working." I was hoping you'd have some new information to back up such a claim, because that would be very useful!Paywalls are allowed on HN, but here's a workaround: https://archive.ph/teyKe
epistasis 25 days ago The article doesn't mention tracking, why would you say it's not working?Slide 25 here shows that 99% of new utility installs in 2024 were single-axis trackers, because costs have fallen so farhttps://emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10/Utility%20Sc...What's different about 2025? saltyoldman 25 days ago I don't know, it's a paywalled site. epistasis 25 days ago It's still completely unclear to me why you'd say an obviously false thing like "tracking isn't working." I was hoping you'd have some new information to back up such a claim, because that would be very useful!Paywalls are allowed on HN, but here's a workaround: https://archive.ph/teyKe
saltyoldman 25 days ago I don't know, it's a paywalled site. epistasis 25 days ago It's still completely unclear to me why you'd say an obviously false thing like "tracking isn't working." I was hoping you'd have some new information to back up such a claim, because that would be very useful!Paywalls are allowed on HN, but here's a workaround: https://archive.ph/teyKe
epistasis 25 days ago It's still completely unclear to me why you'd say an obviously false thing like "tracking isn't working." I was hoping you'd have some new information to back up such a claim, because that would be very useful!Paywalls are allowed on HN, but here's a workaround: https://archive.ph/teyKe
so tracking isn't really working I guess it's a story about tracking solar
The article doesn't mention tracking, why would you say it's not working?
Slide 25 here shows that 99% of new utility installs in 2024 were single-axis trackers, because costs have fallen so far
https://emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10/Utility%20Sc...
What's different about 2025?
I don't know, it's a paywalled site.
It's still completely unclear to me why you'd say an obviously false thing like "tracking isn't working." I was hoping you'd have some new information to back up such a claim, because that would be very useful!
Paywalls are allowed on HN, but here's a workaround: https://archive.ph/teyKe