The ESREC Test Filed established in 2013, it is a lifetime testing system to move knowledge from laboratories to in-filed application.
The Test field includes:
Sonnen System (Tracking system):
It's a biaxial tracking system with aim of maximizing the useful solar energy. With the highly precise operating tracking system enable stable predictable solar power yields which lay up to 45% above yields of fixed installation.
There are Two Tracking systems at the ASU testing field:
- CPV Tracker:
The main concept behind the development of the CPV technology is very straightforward: concentrating the sunlight by optical devices such as lenses or mirrors reduces the area of expensive solar cells of a factor roughly equal to the concentration factor.
- Polycrystalline Tracker:
Polycrystalline solar panels are also made from silicon; instead of using a single crystal of silicon, manufacturers melt many fragments of silicon together to form the wafers for the panel.
Polycrystalline solar panels are also referred to as “multi-crystalline or many-crystal silicon.
- Fixed System:
At the ESREC a fixed system with different technology and different orientations that gives the students a chance to test different scenarios on the system with different conditions.
The fixed system includes:
Poly-crystalline panels | Mono-crystalline panels | Thin film panels |
South oriented | South oriented
| South oriented |
East /West oriented | East /West oriented |
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