A support housing includes a housing body and a housing cover. The housing body defines an accommodating space and has an opening spatially communicated with the accommodating space. The housing cover includes a cover plate and a plurality of retaining mechanisms. The cover plate is connected to the housing body and operable to close and open the opening. The cover plate is adapted to support a solar power panel. The retaining mechanisms are connected to the cover plate and slidable in a first direction relative to the cover plate. The retaining mechanisms are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. Any two adjacent ones of the retaining mechanisms are movable toward and away from each other to adjust a distance therebetween so that the solar power panel is clamped therebetween.

A support housing includes a housing body and a housing cover. The housing body defines an accommodating space and has an opening spatially communicated with the accommodating space. The housing cover includes a cover plate and a plurality of retaining mechanisms. The cover plate is connected to the housing body and operable to close and open the opening. The cover plate is adapted to support a solar power panel. The retaining mechanisms are connected to the cover plate and slidable in a first direction relative to the cover plate. The retaining mechanisms are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. Any two adjacent ones of the retaining mechanisms are movable toward and away from each other to adjust a distance therebetween so that the solar power panel is clamped therebetween.

An electric power generation system is disclosed to produce electrical energy. The electric power generation system includes a solar awning that is ideally carried by a vehicle that is operable under its own power or towed behind a lead vehicle. The solar awning has a solar base attached to the roof of the vehicle and a pair of solar arms that are hingedly connected to respective opposite sides of the solar base. Each of the solar base and the pair of solar arms has an array of solar panels that convert solar energy to electrical energy. The solar awning is folded from an open configuration for maximum exposure to the sun at which the solar arms lie side-by-side the solar base to a closed configuration for minimum exposure to the sun at which the solar arms rotate downwardly from the solar base to lie alongside the vehicle.

A floating solar photovoltaic array having an energy management power control system configured to send power clipped by an inverter to the at least one powered accessory device which can be an aerator, a diffuser, a sub-surface agitator, a sub-surface water circulator, a sub-surface positioning/mooring system, a water quality sensor; a panel washer, or a bird removal system. The array has inflatable pontoons and an air manifold system which is powered by the solar photovoltaic modules can be used to adjust the angle of inclination of the solar photovoltaic modules to the sun. The powered accessories can also be powered by unclipped power or on-shore power or combinations thereof which can be controllably adjusted by the energy management control system over time.

A floating solar photovoltaic array having an energy management power control system configured to send power clipped by an inverter to the at least one powered accessory device which can be an aerator, a diffuser, a sub-surface agitator, a sub-surface water circulator, a sub-surface positioning/mooring system, a water quality sensor; a panel washer, or a bird removal system. The array has inflatable pontoons and an air manifold system which is powered by the solar photovoltaic modules can be used to adjust the angle of inclination of the solar photovoltaic modules to the sun. The powered accessories can also be powered by unclipped power or on-shore power or combinations thereof which can be controllably adjusted by the energy management control system over time.

[Object] To provide a sheet-like structure capable of highly accurately estimating a sheet-like shape.

[Solving Means] A sheet-like structure includes a sheet-like member and a plurality of detection sensors. The sheet-like member extends along an in-plane direction orthogonal to a thickness direction and receives light incident on the sheet-like member. The plurality of detection sensors are dispersedly arranged on the sheet-like member along the in-plane direction and are for detecting an incident angle of the light with respect to the sheet-like member at each arrangement position of the plurality of detection sensors.

The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods for generating solar power. In some examples, a solar unit can have multiple solar panels (and one or more non-solar panels), a set of hinges, and air driven cooling. The unit can be configured to couple the plurality of panels to one another in a geometric shape. In an example, a set of hinges can include at least one rotatable hinge that can be coupled to at least one respective rotatable solar panel of the plurality of solar panels.

An antenna system is configured for use in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) around Earth. The system has a plurality of antenna satellites coupled together to form a phased array. Each of the plurality of antenna satellites have an antenna body with an antenna and a solar cell. A processing device determines an orientation of the plurality of antenna satellites and position the phased array in the orientation based on an analysis of the solar cell of the antenna bodies facing the sun, the antenna of the antenna bodies facing the Earth, and maintaining a torque equilibrium of the phased array.

The present invention relates to an alternative power generation system, comprising a portable electricity harvesting device for generating electrical power, a power unit coupled to said portable electricity harvesting device including circuitry for processing electrical power generated by said portable electricity harvesting device and storing said electrical power in a battery within said power unit, and a plurality of distribution components in electrical communication with said power unit and a plurality of devices to be electrically powered.

The present invention relates to an alternative power generation system, comprising a portable electricity harvesting device for generating electrical power, a power unit coupled to said portable electricity harvesting device including circuitry for processing electrical power generated by said portable electricity harvesting device and storing said electrical power in a battery within said power unit, and a plurality of distribution components in electrical communication with said power unit and a plurality of devices to be electrically powered.