Commercial Flat Roof System

For this client, a small building owner in Escondido, they desired to maximize the number of Solar Panels on the roof.  Normally you like to tilt the panels for maximum capture of the photons, but due shading considerations, the number of panels would needed to be reduced significantly.  Therefore a flat orientation was installed.  The loss of efficiency was less than 2% over optimal angle, so acceptable to the client.

We also installed a piece of technology from a company called E-IQ that optimizes the current flowing into the inverters and to assist the efficiey of the panels when some late afternnon shading affects one of the arrays.  This is some very cool and advanced technology, and I will dedicate the next blog post to this equipment.

Below, is the case study on this project.

Pole mounted systems

For those property owners that have extra space, or more ideally a hillside that orients roughly south a pole mounted system is a better long term value.  It is easier to maintain, and the are systems that allow for tracking that work better with a pole mounted system.  Below is an example of a project we completed in East San Diego County, near Escondido.