Prosolmed - Getting The Most Out Of The Sun
by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 10.20.05
The Spanish company Prosolmed is currently testing a solar-power generation plant that tracks the sun throughout the day to always keep the panels at a right angle in relation with the light rays. We've seen this before, but only with much smaller panels. Maybe what Prosolmed is doing is not a first, but it is certainly not common yet. We suspect that the very large-scale solar plants of the future will look like Australia's solar tower, but the medium-sized installations could certainly use this technology. The tracking system helps improve energy production by up to 40% (!) compared to an installation of the same size that doesn't move. ::Prosolmed, via ::Le Blog Énergie (french)
Better:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/solar.html?tw=wn_tophead_7
How is this different than PV tracking systems that I hear about frequently? Or is just because this is much larger in size?
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