GameChange Solar Doubles Saudi Production Capacity to 6 GW by September

• US-based GameChange Solar will expand its Dammam tracker plant to 6 GW / yr by Sept 2025, boosting Vision 2030 local content and meeting Gulf solar demand.

GameChange Solar is accelerating its push into the Gulf renewables market, announcing plans to lift its Saudi Arabian manufacturing output to 6 GW per year by September 2025—twice its current volume. The Connecticut-headquartered racking and solar-tracking specialist said the expansion responds to “surging regional demand” and to Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 target that new energy projects source up to 70 % of content locally.

The upgrade centres on the company’s tracker factory in Dammam, Eastern Province, which opened last year as a 3 GW joint venture with Chinese equipment maker Jiangsu Zhenjiang New Energy Equipment (JZNEE). Designed for easy modular growth, the plant was initially sized to capture early utility-scale projects in the Kingdom and wider GCC. With the order book filling faster than expected, GameChange is now adding two new production lines, automated tube-welding stations and an expanded logistics yard that will allow direct shipment to megaproject sites such as the 2-GW Sudair solar park and the 4-GW Al-Shuaibah complex.

The facility will continue to turn out the company’s flagship Genius Tracker™—a single-axis system engineered for the abrasive desert environment. GameChange notes that all steel components will be sourced and fabricated inside the Kingdom once the expansion is complete, helping EPC contractors qualify for in-country value (ICV) thresholds and for the Public Investment Fund’s green-finance criteria. According to vice-president Jason Wang, the extra capacity “puts us comfortably ahead of the curve for the next round of tenders expected from ACWA Power and the Saudi Power Procurement Co.”

Market analysts see ample room for that capacity. Saudi demand for solar-tracker hardware grew at a 44 % compound rate between 2018 and 2023 and is forecast to add another 16 % annually through 2028 as Riyadh chases its 130-GW renewable-energy goal. Meanwhile, neighbouring UAE and Oman are lining up multi-gigawatt projects that are increasingly stipulating Gulf Cooperation Council content rules—making Dammam a strategic export hub.

For GameChange, the Saudi ramp-up complements its parallel build-out in the United States, where the firm lifted domestic capacity to 35 GW last year in response to Inflation Reduction Act incentives. Management says the dual-continent footprint de-risks supply chains and allows customers to lock in multiyear tracker volumes at stable prices.

With construction crews already on-site, the company expects the first of the new Saudi lines to start commissioning tests in late July, keeping the September deadline on track. When fully operational, GameChange estimates the expanded plant will support more than 750 direct jobs and deliver enough tracker sets each year to support roughly 8 GW of PV modules across the Middle East—a timely boost as the region races to convert its abundant sunshine into exportable green electrons.