Tracking the Sun with Nextracker: Performance, Precision, and the Next Phase of Africa’s Solar Growth

As Africa accelerates its push to expand electricity access, attention is shifting from capacity alone to performance. Solar trackers—designed to follow the sun’s path and maximise output—are becoming a critical tool in improving project economics, reliability, and scale across both grid-connected and off-grid systems.

In this episode of Let’s Talk Energy, recorded during aef last year in Cape Town, Rad Abdalhaq, Director of Business Development and Sales at Nextracker MENA, explores how tracker technology, data integration, and local adaptation are influencing Africa’s electrification roadmap—and what the continent’s solar future could look like by 2040.