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A new test for trackers

The benefits of deploying bifacial solar panels on single-axis trackers are touted like snake oil these days, with promises of anywhere from 5 to 50% gains in energy output compared with a monofacial panel. Unfortunately, the field data that might delineate the actual energy gain of a bifacial panel on a tracker are hard to acquire, and the data that are available typically describe small-scale tests under tightly defined conditions.

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pv magazine

11 Sep 2018

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A handful of competing tracker manufacturers are teaming up with independent engineers and national science lab partners, among others, to field test the performance of a variety of current bifacial panel designs on their latest tracker models. These field tests should confirm the accuracy of the mathematical software models used to predict the product performance, …

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