Mowing Under Solar Panels

Mowers with traditional blades can damage equipment.

Mowing under solar panels.

The problem was the labor required to mow the grass underneath the newly installed 7 acre solar farm in durham nc at the ge aviation facility. Softee automation and general electric have teamed up for a unique solution. Ovocontrol a ready to use bait that controls the reproduction of treated birds. Bigmow general electric.

Bent over white square frames some of the researchers catalog the number and type of native plants growing on a square foot of land. Bigmow at ge underneath solar panels in their 7 acre solar field robotic battery powered mowers. Customers will save significantly on fuel and maintenance costs and will be able to operate effectively and quietly at night. Towerguard tensioned wire between posts of varying heights.

100 electric solar powered. Solar panel protection keeps all birds from getting under solar arrays protecting the roof and equipment. Graze mowers are electric with boosted run times from solar panels. Gridwire tensioned steel cables suspended in various patterns to deter large aquatic birds.

System owners recognize that growing vegetation under and around pv systems must be minimized to protect their valuable investment. Hand held weed whackers are a labor intensive solution. On a humid overcast day in central minnesota a dozen researchers crouch in the grass between rows of photovoltaic pv solar panels. Mowing spraying herbicide grazing sheep goats and covering the area with weed control sheets for example.

How do you keep grass under the panels from growing too high. Even the sheep tried at one small site behaved unreliably. There are several weed control methods used for pv ground mount systems in japan. From the cronkite school of journalism amanda mason brings us one.