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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2016
Nextracker Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Madyan Michotte de Welle, Marseilles, FR;
Jérôme Arliaud, Rousset, FR;
NEXTRACKER INC., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
Solar array including solar modules distributed in rows (), each solar module having a solar collector carried by a single-axis solar tracker (), a reference solar power plant including a central reference solar module and at least one secondary reference solar module, and a piloting unit adapted for: piloting the angular orientation of the central reference module according to a central reference orientation setpoint corresponding to an initial orientation setpoint, piloting the orientation of each secondary reference module according to a secondary reference orientation setpoint corresponding to the initial orientation setpoint shifted by a predefined offset angle; receiving an energy production value from each reference module; piloting the orientation of the modules, except for the reference modules, by applying the reference orientation setpoint associated to the reference module having the highest production value.