Horizontal Dual-Axis Solar Tracker is used to mount bi-facial solar panels to maintain the top side of the bi-facial solar panels to track the sun’s movement in both E-W and N-S directions to receive the sun’s ray perpendicular to the top surface of the solar panel resulting in the highest power generation.
Solar power generation is highest when the sun’s rays fall perpendicular (at a 90° angle) to the top surface of the solar cell. As the angle of incidence deviates from 90° and approaches 0°, the power generation proportionately decreases.
Solar trackers are useful to help orient solar panels to track the sun to receive the sun rays perpendicular (at a 90° angle) to the top surface of the solar cell for most of the period in a day and all through the year, to generate maximum solar power.
It is important to use a dual-axis solar tracker to generate the maximum solar power, but in the absence of a viable dual-axis solar tracker, the market is content with a single-axis solar tracker with a marginal additional benefit.
At this stage only, Dr. S. K. Radhakrishnan engaged in developing a innovative dual-axis solar tracker based on a whole new principle, the Horizontal Dual-Axis Solar Tracker. It took almost 9 years to invent a new horizontal dual-axis solar tracker that can generate 100% more power generation than an equivalent fixed-tilt system. This invention is the world’s first Horizontal Dual-Axis Solar Tracker, which can increase solar energy generation by 100%.