Tracker frames across a solar farm, Capricornia
Pre-assembled tracker frames distributed across a 320 ha solar farm without a single haul road extension.
PA-2461 · Gracemere, Capricornia · 2023-08-30
The constraint
Why this lift needed a helicopter
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.
The lift
How it was flown
- Load weight
- 760 kg
- Aircraft
- AS350
- Line length
- 35 m
- Crew
- 7
- Exclusion zone
- 50 m
- Lift cycles
- 64
- A repeating racetrack circuit was flown from the assembly bay to each row block.
- Sixty-four cycles were flown across one day with two fuel stops on the site pad.
- Ground crews rotated in pairs to keep hook-up and release times under 40 seconds.
The numbers
Time, cost and disruption
- Helicopter time on site
- 7.2 hrs
- Flight time
- 5.4 hrs
- Crane alternative
- 14 days telehandler cycle · $96,000
- Road closures
- 0
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