Ground Mounts | Solar panel mounting

Ground-mounted PV systems are installed as large solar “farms” or as an alternative (or in conjunction with) rooftop installations. Ground-mounted systems have ground mounts constructed with poles planted in the ground and secured with concrete to support racking and panels while meeting local wind load requirements.

A good advantage of free-standing, ground-mounted PV systems is that they can be placed and tilted at the optimum solar orientation. Single- and dual-axis tracking can also be incorporated into the ground mounts to boost panel output. Production-based incentives often induce system owners to utilize trackers and squeeze more energy from their arrays. Although tracking systems have vastly improved, they require maintenance and can break down. As a result, tracking is usually incorporated in ground mounts for large-scale systems of one megawatt and more where the economics make sense over time.