Solar energy prices straight down, solar manufacturers to actively seek to increase the added value, and now the solar energy plan to use unmanned aerial vehicles, robots, but also combine with agriculture, the complete use of land, the United States crystalline silicon solar cell maker solar energy (SunPower) In September 2016 released the third generation of "Oasis" large-scale solar energy planning platform, revealing the future direction of large-scale solar power solutions.
Solar energy, said the current price of solar procurement contracts straight down, you must view every detail in the system, to find the best way from it. The Oasis platform integrates power generation planning and design tools, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and agricultural integration, from the initial planning and design to operation and maintenance. At present, the equivalent of 700 megawatts (Megawatt) scale of the application of solar energy oasis platform, in 2017, all solar energy plans will use the third generation of oasis platform.
After the completion of the plan, the UAV can also be used to monitor the power generation status, such as the infrared to find there is no abnormal hot spots, there may be short-circuit on behalf of the phenomenon of sending UAVs can quickly survey a large number of power generation sites, View more time-saving and personnel costs.
Under the assistance of the US Department of Energy's Sun Shot Initiative, the third-generation Oasis platform for solar energy provides a software design tool for UAVs, called the global energy optimization (GEO) System, can fly over a large number of unmanned aerial over the site, quickly photographed photo survey site terrain, upload to the cloud platform, software automatically optimize the site design in this way to plan the power plant design faster than in the past 90 %, But also to adapt to the irregular shape of the site, the use of abnormal zero space, and each additional 10 acres of available land area, it is equivalent to an increase of 2-4 megawatts of generating capacity, the impact of large-scale programs should not be overlooked.
Solar panels need to regularly remove the dust, so as to avoid the accumulation of dust cover the sun's ability to generate electricity, in the past to human cleaning, not only time-consuming, personnel costs and more water. The Oasis platform automatically cleans the 10 million-watt solar panel in 10 hours, with a staff of three employees and a truck, which is 10 times faster than traditional methods and saves 75% of water, robotic technology From the 2013 merger of Greenbotics, coupled with the shooting on the plan to help continue to develop.
In the past, the main cost of the solar project came from the solar panel itself. With the continuous reduction of the hardware cost, the cost of operation and maintenance is now higher and higher, accounting for 15% of the total planned cost, and the robot can save operation and maintenance costs. In the past, solar developers focused mainly on the panel itself, now more emphasis on other aspects of the system innovation, application of unmanned aerial vehicles, robots, cloud software to reduce costs, speed up and make solar energy more reliable.
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