• Soltec’s new algorithm for bifacial modules finds the optimum place of photo voltaic trackers in a photovoltaic plant contemplating back and front radiation. • The estimated financial revenue for a 50 MW plant in Spain is €6,200 per yr. • This algorithm is added to others from the corporate, comparable to TeamTrack or Diffuse Booster.
Murcia, Could 16, 2023 – Soltec, a vertically built-in firm devoted to photovoltaic tasks with photo voltaic trackers, has launched its new monitoring algorithm, bifacial monitoring. This new algorithm seems to be for the optimum place of the photo voltaic tracker making an allowance for not solely the entrance radiation, like all of the monitoring algorithms created to this point, but additionally the again radiation. Thus, the algorithm calculates absolutely the place or angle that permits to maximise the manufacturing by contemplating the radiation from each side of the bifacial module.
The corporate has compiled the findings from each analytical checks carried out at totally different latitudes (equator, north and Mediterranean) in addition to experimental checks carried out in its take a look at subject in Murcia, into a brand new White Paper. Due to this analysis, the photo voltaic monitoring professional agency discovered a rise in power manufacturing of as much as 0.30% (0.41% throughout activation). Based on Soltec laboratory researchers, this revenue represents an financial good thing about €6,192 per yr for a 50 MW photo voltaic plant in Spain with an estimated power value of €50 per MWh.
“Though bifacial photovoltaic modules have change into very talked-about lately and are virtually the primary alternative for many builders, construction producers haven’t but tailored their monitoring algorithms to take full benefit of them, till now utilizing a regular monitoring methodology much like that used for monofacial modules. Nonetheless, with Soltec’s bifacial monitoring, we now have the chance to place the trackers at new angles that enable us to extend the general the revenue by contemplating each side of the module and never solely the entrance”, stated Javier Guerrero, chief of the analysis and PhD in Renewable Energies from the Polytechnic College of Cartagena.
This algorithm enhances different monitoring algorithms developed by the corporate, all designed to extend plant manufacturing and due to this fact its financial efficiency. That is the case of the ‘TeamTrack’ algorithm, which avoids shading between rows of trackers in hours of low photo voltaic radiation as a result of terrain irregularities, or the ‘Diffuse Booster’, whose goal is to -maximize manufacturing when diffuse radiation is bigger than direct radiation.
You’ll be able to entry the White Paper at:
https://lab.soltec.com/tracking-bifacial/
About Soltec
Soltec Energy Holdings (ticker: ‘SOL’) is an organization specializing in vertically built-in options within the photovoltaic photo voltaic power sector, with a powerful dedication to innovation and sustainability. Primarily based in Murcia, the corporate was based in 2004 and presently operates in 16 international locations, with a powerful presence in Spain, North America, and Latin America. The corporate is listed on the Spanish Steady Market since 2020.
Soltec builds its exercise by means of three main enterprise areas: i) Soltec’s industrial division is the third largest producer of photo voltaic trackers worldwide, providing extra building providers to its clients to make sure a whole and built-in worth proposition; ii) the photovoltaic challenge growth division, which has a powerful environmental, social, and governance dedication; iii) Soltec Asset Administration, a 3rd enterprise division the place Soltec manages the property that the corporate maintains in its portfolio, with the purpose of maximizing its advantages within the medium and long run.
