PVO Pergolas Site Planning

Several PVO Pergola arbors arranged in a garden or on a terrace roof can harvest more summer solar energy per given site area than several PV 2-axis trackers on masts, mainly because more PV panels are possible. To illustrate how PV can help during the summer peak, two possibilities on a 100ft/30.47m square site in Madison, Wisconsin with 10ft²/0.93m² PV panels were compared for a June day solar radiation (per NREL-463-5607, 4/94). The 11 PVOLT Pergolas can collect more summer solar energy with pergola-to-pergola overhead wiring, and allow more land area for a building, garden, and additional solar collectors.