Project numberPA-2461LocationGracemere, CapricorniaDate2023-08-30
← Project registerTracker frames across a solar farm, Capricornia
Pre-assembled tracker frames distributed across a 320 ha solar farm without a single haul road extension.
01
The constraint
Recent rain left rows unable to carry telehandler traffic without rutting the array.
Frames were built at a central bay, 2.4 km from the far rows.
The EPC had a hard energisation date with liquidated damages attached.
02
The lift
- Load weight
- 860 kg
- Aircraft
- Airbus H125
- Line length
- 35 m
- Crew
- 7
- Exclusion zone
- 50 m
- Lift cycles
- 64
01A repeating racetrack circuit was flown from the assembly bay to each row block.
02Sixty-four cycles were flown across one day with two fuel stops on the site pad.
03Ground crews rotated in pairs to keep hook-up and release times under 40 seconds.
03
The numbers
- Time on site
- 7.2 hrs
- Flight time
- 5.4 hrs
- Crane alternative
- 14 days telehandler cycle · $96,000
- Road closures
- 0
04
On site
05
Client record
“Two weeks of telehandler work compressed into a day, and we did not rut a single row.”