System and methods for solar photovoltaic array engineering

US10289757B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• HST Solar Farms, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Tucker McClure · Redondo Beach, US
• Santanov Chaudhuri · Los Angeles, US
• Eric A. Ware · Plymouth, US
• Neal Shah · Morgantown, US
• Rudra Roy · Los Angeles, US
• Gregg Luconi · Pasadena, US
• David Ives Brown · Pasadena, US
• Donald Douglas-Hamilton · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 2015
• Grant date: May 14, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 19, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/50
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present application concerns automated optimization, customization or production methods for the design of a solar photovoltaic array, involving one or more or all components in a photovoltaic array, in which the products include system designs, production drawings, permitting and construction drawings, layouts for the mechanical and electrical systems, bill of materials and financial return analyses of such a photovoltaic array.