Installation and Soft Cost Reduction for Horizontal Single Axis Trackers Award Number: DE-EE0007859 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.11 Solar Energy Technologies Office Date: 1/19/2017 Location(s): CA Office(s): Golden Field Office
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January 26, 2017
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Installation and Soft Cost Reduction for Horizontal Single Axis Trackers
Award Number: DE-EE0007859
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.11
Solar Energy Technologies Office
Date: 1/19/2017
Location(s): CA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Nevados Engineering, Inc. to develop, fabricate, and field-test a solar horizontal single axis tracker (HSAT) that provides options for installation on level, sloped, and rolling terrain. A previous SunShot award (DE-EE0007188) supported earlier work on the HSAT design. In the proposed pilot-scale project, Nevados would refine the current structure and validate components through additional testing in order to optimize the design for manufacturing.
Some activities within the scope of the proposed project’s application were approved by DOE for pre-award cost reimbursement. These include design, modeling and development work taking place in Nevados office space, in addition to site preparation at the existing, permitted solar equipment testing facility where Nevados previously conducted HSAT development work as part of award DE-EE0007188. Nevados was authorized to incur pre-award costs for certain site-based activities related to the previous project, which are considered to be within the scope of work reviewed by DOE in the NEPA Determination for that award (GFO-0007188-001; A9, B3.6, B3.11; 9/9/2015).