Renutrak offers repowering solutions for aging solar tracker systems, upgrading obsolete controls and drives with modern components to enhance performance and extend operational life. Their approach minimizes waste and cost by integrating new technology into existing infrastructure, improving reliability and ROI for solar farm operators.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Existing solar tracker systems often suffer from high spare parts costs, outdated control systems, and increasing obsolescence risks, leading to reduced reliability and operational efficiency. This necessitates costly full system replacements or compromises on performance due to the unavailability of critical components for legacy infrastructure.
Solution
Renutrak provides strategic repowering solutions for solar energy tracker systems, focusing on integrating new, reliable components into existing infrastructure to enhance performance and extend operational lifespan. Their approach minimizes waste and installation time by avoiding complete deconstruction and reconstruction. Renutrak offers tailored repower packages, including controls-only upgrades or comprehensive controls and rotational drive replacements, ensuring cost-competitiveness within operational expenditure budgets. They partner with clients to implement solutions that leverage Tier 1 tracker OEM components, thereby restoring reliability and maximizing the return on investment for solar assets.
Target Audience
The primary customers are solar farm operators and asset managers seeking to improve the reliability and performance of their existing solar tracker installations, particularly those with aging or obsolete control systems and rotational drives.
Features
- Controls-only repower solutions to upgrade obsolete control systems while retaining existing rotational drives.
- Integrated controls and rotational drive repower packages for comprehensive system modernization.
- "2 to 1" repower methodology that consolidates two tracker tables into a single controller and drive, reducing component count by 50%.
- Conversion of "ganged" slew drive trackers to "distributed" systems for enhanced row-by-row control and reduced single points of failure.
- Replacement of proprietary control components, including failure-prone inclinometers and custom control boards, with modern Tracker Controller Units (TCUs).
- Integration of advanced capabilities such as remote monitoring and control, overcast stow, variable wind stow, and washing modes.
- Supply of hard-to-find, obsolete, and OEM alternative spare parts for legacy solar tracking systems.
- Support for both AC and DC power configurations, with options to utilize existing AC infrastructure or implement DC power via added pony panels.
- Utilization of ultrasonic anemometers for accurate wind data input into control systems.