Mobile power system
AssigneeRenovagen Ltd
InventorJohn Hingley
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Abstract
A mobile power plant comprising a retractable flexible solar array structure comprising a plurality of thin film photovoltaic modules mounted on a flexible substrate; a spool attached to a portion of the flexible solar array structure and around which the flexible solar array structure can be rolled; power cabling integrated into the flexible solar array structure for transmitting power from the plurality of photovoltaic modules to the spool-end of the flexible solar array structure; a transportable container in which the spool is mounted, the transportable container being capable of housing the flexible solar array structure when it is in a rolled configuration.
Claims20
A mobile power plant comprising:
- a retractable flexible solar array structure comprising a plurality of thin film photovoltaic modules mounted on a flexible substrate;
- a spool attached to a portion of the flexible solar array structure and around which the flexible solar array structure can be rolled;
- power cabling integrated into the flexible solar array structure for transmitting power from the plurality of photovoltaic modules to the spool-end of the flexible solar array structure;
- a transportable container in which the spool is mounted, the transportable container being capable of housing the flexible solar array structure when it is in a rolled configuration.
A mobile power plant comprising a flexible solar array structure comprising a plurality of thin film photovoltaic modules mounted on a flexible substrate and an inflatable support frame configured, when in an inflated state, to support the flexible solar array structure when deployed.
A mobile power plant installation, comprising:
- a mobile power plant comprising a flexible solar array structure having a plurality of thin film photovoltaic modules mounted on a flexible substrate;
- a rigid, fixed structure having a top surface across which the flexible solar array structure is deployed;
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- cooperating fixing components on the flexible solar array structure and the fixed structure for securing the array structure along the top surface of the fixed structure.
A mobile power plant comprising:
- a retractable flexible solar array structure comprising a plurality of thin film photovoltaic modules mounted on a flexible substrate;
- a spool attached to a portion of the flexible solar array structure and around which the flexible solar array structure can be rolled;
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- a transportable container in which the spool is mounted, the transportable container being capable of housing the flexible solar array structure when it is in a rolled configuration;
- wherein the solar array structure comprises plurality of subsections, each subsection including two or more of said photovoltaic modules and each subsection having power cabling associated therewith, separate from power cabling associated with other subsections, for transmitting power from the two or more of photovoltaic modules of the subsection to the spool-end of the flexible solar array structure;
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- the subsections being arranged in a plurality of supersections, each supersection comprising one or more of said subsections, and each supersection being connected to a power electronics device separate from power electronics devices of the other supersections, each power electronics device capable of continued operation in the event of failure of another power electronics device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.