The Project

GreenGo Energy is a company that develops, constructs and operates large-scale solar projects on behalf of clients. The projects have been placed around Europe, and this project in collaboration with Krabbenhøft & Ingolfsson is set to be in the U.S. Krabbenhøft & Ingolfsson teamed up with GreenGo Energy, to develop and optimize construction of solar panels. The main task in the project, was to minimize cost of the solar panels’ constructions. This would be done, by minimizing the tonnage of steel in the construction. This, while still constructing it to last as a permanent construction, and to endure various conditional loads that could occur.

The Participants:

GreenGo is the company behind the project. Krabbenhøft & Ingolfsson are engineering consultants on the steel design and optimization.

Our Role

The design of the supporting steel structure had to minimize cost and construction time. Krabbenhøft & Ingolfsson worked in collaboration with GreenGo on optimizing design of supporting structure for various arrangements of panels, cross section type sand wall thicknesses. The intention was to achieve the lowest possible tonnage of supporting structure and deliver typical steel structure for predefined site categories.

Time Frame

Currently the project is subject to legal matters, which hasn’t seen our design completed.

Construction broken up, into the single elements. Simplicity was the key with this project.

Placing of the solar panels, to maximize the materials used in the construction to the amount of panels.

The finished solar panel drawing, with the constrction assembled and all the panels in place.

Various different stress calculations were made, for different circumstances, to ensure the stability and longevity of the solar panel constructions.

Assembly detail that shows the construction method.

Image credit: Krabbenhøft & Ingolfsson.