Staged stowage of solar trackers and method thereof
AssigneeNextpower LLC
InventorsStuart Upfill-Brown, Tushar Guha, Jacob Mark Morin
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Abstract
Methods and systems of managing dynamic response to wind in a solar tracker system are provided. The method includes determining a wind speed, comparing the wind speed to a predetermined threshold value to determine if the wind speed equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold, positioning a windward most solar tracker to a predetermined angle based on the comparing, and positioning a leeward most solar tracker to the predetermined angle based on the comparing. The solar trackers are positioned at the predetermined angle at a predetermined interval starting at the windward most solar tracker and the remaining solar trackers remain in a normal operating condition.
Claims7
A solar tracker system, comprising:
- a solar tracker array comprising solar trackers;
- a tracker controller operably coupled to the solar tracker array, the tracker controller configured to:
- determine a wind speed;
- determine the wind speed equals or exceeds a predetermined threshold;
- position a windward most solar tracker in the solar tracker array to a first predetermined angle;
- and
- position a leeward most solar tracker in the solar tracker array to a second predetermined angle, the second predetermined angle being different than the first predetermined angle;
- wherein
- a plurality of solar trackers between the windward most solar tracker and the leeward most solar tracker remain in a normal operating condition tracking the sun across the sky.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.