Unlike fixed solar panels that remain stationary, a solar panel tracker rotates to maintain optimal alignment with sunlight, increasing energy production by 25% to 45% depending on the tracker type ...

[Bruce Helsen] built this dual axis solar tracker as one of his final projects for school. As can be experimentally verified in a very short timeframe, the sun moves across the sky. This is a ...

A Taiwan food facility is building the world’s largest rooftop dual-axis solar tracker power station. The 840-kilowatts of energy produced by the project, located in Pingtung County, Taiwan, comes ...

Researchers have designed a new tracking system that utilizes an arithmetic optimization-based PID controller. The proposed tracker uses two different sensor types – a UV sensor and a ...

Solar panels are an amazing piece of engineering, but without exactly the right conditions they can be pretty fickle. One of the most important conditions is that the panel be pointed at the sun, and ...

HSINCHU, Taiwan – Solar industry exhibitions this year (2015) experienced significant increases in the proportion of solar tracking systems. Due to limited land resources, the overall investment ...

Double-sided solar panels that tilt based on the sun’s position could boost the amount of energy collected. The two approaches existed independently before, but researchers have now looked at the ...

Researchers have embraced the darkness and the light to make double-sided solar panels with increased efficiency. The panels work by gathering sunlight on one side and reflected ambient light on the ...

Tracking systems, that continually orient photovoltaic (PV) panels towards the Sun, are expected to increase the power output from the PV panels. Tremendous amount of research is being done and funds ...

Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels--which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one--and single-axis tracking technology that tilts the panels so they can follow the ...