Solar array with reference solar power plant for improved management

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PATENT NO 12166452
APP PUB NO 20240154568A1
SERIAL NO

18415294

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Solar array (1) comprising solar modules (3) distributed in rows (10), each solar module comprising solar collector (5) carried by a single-axis solar tracker (4), a reference solar power plant (2) comprising a central reference solar module and at least one secondary reference solar module, and a piloting unit (7) adapted for:

    piloting the angular orientation of the central reference module according to a central reference orientation setpoint corresponding to an initial orientation setpoint,piloting the orientation of each secondary reference module according to a secondary reference orientation setpoint corresponding to the initial orientation setpoint shifted by a predefined offset angle;receiving an energy production value from each reference module;piloting the orientation of the modules, except for the reference modules, by applying the reference orientation setpoint associated to the reference module having the highest production value.

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  • NEXTRACKER LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Arliaud, Jérôme Pourrieres, FR 17 76
Michotte, De Welle Madyan Marseilles, FR 12 89

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