Dual-axis PV tracking system

Sfinkx Corporation announced it has launched its next-generation SolarTower, a dual-axis PV tracking system featuring an integrated solar array and bifacial solar modules. The dual-axis solar tracker is designed to maximize solar tracking performance, while reducing costs and operational risks for large, commercial and utility-scale solar power plants. The solar tracker system includes six, high-efficiency crystalline silicon PV modules, and uses a motor and GPS to turn the solar panels from east to west and up and down—ensuring the panels always follow the sun’s elevation. Compared to a fixed array of the same production capacity, the Sfinkx solar tracker will produce up to 37% more electricity.

SolarTower is the first PV tracker to feature an Integrated Solar Array (ISA), a design solution that reduces the cost of balance of systems (BOS) and solar panels. It fully integrates the modules into the mounting structure, thereby eliminating the need for an aluminum frame, grounding wire, clips, and nuts or bolts. SolarTower also offers bifacial solar panels, dual-sided glass modules (G2G) that generate more electricity by converting direct, radiant, and scattered solar energy on the front and the backsides of the module.

Sfinkx Corporation

www.sfinkx.com


Volume: May/June 2013