Tag: tracking
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Exosun Launches SMARTracking for its Solar Tracking Systems
Exosun, a leading provider of solar tracking technologies for utility-scale ground-mounted solar plants, now offers its Exotrack HZ horizontal single-axis tracker with an intelligent patented backtracking process, called SMARTracking. Solar trackers are motorized structures that orient photovoltaic panels toward the sun throughout the day, to significantly increase solar plant outputRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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University of California Plans 16-MW SunPower Solar System
The University of California, Davis and SunPower Corp. plan to build a 16-MW ground-mounted solar power plant that is expected to generate 14 percent of UC Davis’ electricity needs. The university anticipates that, when the plant is completed in 2015, more than one-third of total electricity demand on campus will beRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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California Solar Project is First for New Net Energy Metering Program
A new solar project in Silver Lakes, a planned community of more than 3,000 residences in San Bernardino County, Calif., will be the first to take advantage of Southern California Edison’s new NEMA program. A revolutionary step forward for distributed solar generation, this program allows a utility customer, such asRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Array Technologies, ET Solar Partner on 1.8-MW Solar Project in California
System reliability is always paramount and Bakersfield 111 Solar Park presents Array Technologies Inc. (ATI) and ET Solar’s turn-key solar financial solutions provider, ET Capital, with an interesting case in point. Not only does the 1.8-MWdc facility need to operate properly in the extreme temperatures of the desert-like summers typicalRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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California Dairy Installs Array Technologies Solar Tracking System
Vander Woude Dairy of Merced, California, was looking for a way to decrease operational expenses while providing its business with a sustainable form of power generation. Array Technologies Inc.’s (ATI) customer, local design-build construction firm Pickett Solar, developed a 1.1-MWdc solar tracking array that will produce 100% of the dairy’sRead More — Solar Builder magazine