Solar Tracker Optimizer

Optimizing Solar Power Stations

We were contracted by Solar Power Generation Projects to make a software that would help them do shadow analysis for modern solar trackers. We developed a plug-in for Rhinoceros 3D that they could use to calculate the exact percentages of the trackers, or any of their parts, that were in shadow at the specific moment in time. We enabled the automated analysis for large periods of time, with an arbitrary interval, for large sets of different solar trackers. The software already got pretty big and complicated, so we recommend watching the video for more information.