Gravity-Oriented and Vertically-Oriented High-Power-Density Slatted Bifacial Agile Smart Power Generators

摘要

A vertically-deployable solar photovoltaic electricity generator comprising a plurality of bifacial photovoltaic power generating slats with longer and shorter peripheral slat boundary sides, and a plurality of power maximizing integrated circuits, is disclosed. The plurality of bifacial photovoltaic power generating slats are retractable for volume compaction mode and expandable with an expansion axis substantially parallel to the direction of gravity for photovoltaic electricity generation mode. The vertically-deployable solar photovoltaic electricity generator is photovoltaic electricity generation mode whenever expanded with the expansion direction parallel to the direction of gravity, and with the longer slat boundary substantially perpendicular the direction of gravity. The adjacent pairs of slats within the plurality of bifacial photovoltaic power generating slats are spaced apart by a finite gap allowing collection of the light on each of the bifacial photovoltaic power generating slats in the photovoltaic electricity generation mode.