GameChange Solar, a solar structure manufacturer, has released TopoSmart+, a project analysis tool designed to minimize the terrain cost of installing the company's single axis solar tracker on challenging and uneven terrain.
TopoSmart+runs multiple design iterations on solar project sites to determine lower cost leveling and steel column options, optimize tracker elevations, and generate leveling plans. The 3D modeling of this tool supports the straight pipe and terrain following configuration of GameChange's Genius Tracker to ensure that the tracker design is suitable for the specific conditions on site.
For homeowners interested in terrain tracking systems, GameChange offers solar trackers suitable for medium and extreme terrain tracking, allowing for a maximum slope variation of 1 ° between each column span. TopoSmart+can also be designed with relatively small changes in the slope of the pipeline to increase the power output of the tracker system.
Our goal at TopoSmart+is to provide powerful and streamlined solutions that reduce terrain costs while supporting project financing, "said Anthony Assal, Director of Technical Development at GameChange." By optimizing the slope and steel requirements of specific terrains, we provide developers with an efficient and cost-effective approach, even in the most challenging locations