Since TrueCapture was introduced in 2017, the solar tracker yield enhancement and control platform has helped solar asset owners gain gigawatt-hours of additional production and millions of dollars in revenue. The latest addition to TrueCapture is what we’re calling Split Boost, the industry’s first proprietary row-to-row algorithm that helps optimize the energy gain of large-format, split-cell solar modules.

By taking advantage of the split-cell modules’ electrical architecture and inherent shade tolerance, Split Boost intelligently adjusts how the tracker rows interact with each other to increase irradiance on the top half of the modules and enhance energy capture during the early and latter parts of the day.  

With the introduction of Split Boost, TrueCapture row-to-row methodology has expanded its capabilities to include module-optimized modes to maximize production where rolling terrain and other topographic and construction variances would otherwise cause shading problems. The algorithm finds the sweet spot of the maximized angle of incidence (AOI) between standard backtracking and true tracking. Plus, this optimization provides a boost in production even if the site terrain is perfectly flat. 

As large-format, split-cell modules integrated on solar trackers increasingly become the preferred hardware choice of utility-scale developers and asset owners eager to maximize their plant production and reduce balance of systems costs, smart software tools like TrueCapture’s Split Boost allow them to squeeze even more energy harvest from their systems.

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