TRACKING THE SUN FOR MORE NEW ENERGY

Originally posted May 7.
Do your solar panels seem tired, listless? Do they just sit there all day while the best of the sun’s energy passes them by? You need - RayTracker!

RayTracker moves those bump-on-a-log panels along! It rolls over the horizon WITH the sun, getting your panels charged with solar energy even as panels without RayTracker get left in the shade. RayTracker has been shown in laboratory tests to make solar panels just like yours 38% more productive. That’s right – 38%!

RayTracker is a breakthrough technology from Energy Innovations, an operating company created by digitial-world genius and IdeaLab founder Bill Gross.

RayTracker’s cutting edge technology includes special features such as a “proprietary tracker-to-tracker Shade Avoidance Technology…” But that’s not all! RayTracker also has “precision distributed actuation for increased tracking accuracy over the entire installation…” But that’s not all! RayTracker is designed to give users a low, low - low! – “actuation energy budget.”

And RayTracker is rugged! It will stand up to 85mph wind zones! It will take earthquakes and keep on rolling! It has a nighttime, 10-degree automatic stow, so nothing will fall on your panels and just sit there!

And listen to this! RayTracker has mechanism obstruction sensing and automatic recovery! It will take better care of your solar panels than YOU would!

Do you live in a bad neighborhood? No need to worry about RayTracker if you take advantage of its optional anti-theft panel security fastener kits.

Can you really pass this amazing new technological breakthrough by?

Don’t let your solar system suffer a day longer in stillness. Get RayTracker and see the difference immediately.

Call 1-8000-RayTracker. Operators are standing by.

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Energy Innovations Introduces RayTracker GC Single-Axis Solar Tracker
May 1, 2008 (Business Wire via Yahoo Finance)

WHO
Energy Innovations, Inc. (Bill Gross, Founder/Mark Henderson, EVP); Michael Kahn, president, Kahn Solar;

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WHAT
RayTracker™ GC, a mechanism on which photovoltaic (PV) solar panels are mounted, allowing them to track the direct rays of the sun as it moves across the sky each day, maximizing their productivity.

WHEN
- Energy Innovations announced the availability of its new tracking system May 1.
- Energy Innovations was founded in 2000.

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WHERE
- RayTracker is being deployed in a variety of PV installations totaling over 2.6 megawatts.
- It is designed for ground-mount and carport-mount applications.

WHY
- RayTracker combines motion and simplicity in a single axis technology.
- It was designed for cost effectiveness and maximizing solar panel efficiency.
- It can increase yearly energy production 38% over stationary PV systems.
- Engineered for maximum reliability and easy deployment. Factory pre-assembled parts cut field installation time and work. GPS controllers require no adjustment of calibration and have a 25-year design life.

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QUOTES
- Mark Henderson, EVP for RayTracker, Energy Innovations: “Installing a tracking PV system vs. a fixed-position system allows customers to realize the greatest amount of energy production from their PV panels, thereby maximizing and speeding up a system’s return on investment…RayTracker gives integrators, and the industry as a whole, an improved option for increasing the efficiency of the systems they’re designing and installing.”
- Michael Kahn, president, Kahn Solar: “Over the past several months, my team and I have had the opportunity to work closely with Energy Innovations in the test and design trials for the RayTracker project…The result is a product that I’m proud to present to my customers and I’m already including RayTracker in my proposals.”