Patent ID: 9500390
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: F24S,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A method of setting a throttle at a solar power plant, by a controller having a processor and addressable memory, the method comprising: selecting at least one aim point on a receiver of the solar power plant; determining two or more subgroups based on maximizing differences between a contribution of power that each subgroup delivers to each panel of the receiver; calculating a desired energy to be delivered by two or more subgroups to each selected aim point via a search method based on an aiming scheme, wherein the aiming scheme comprises the step of performing a ray trace to calculate the desired energy to be delivered per the determined two or more subgroups; and determining an optimum distribution of energy to be delivered to the receiver across the two or more subgroups via a search program based on the calculated desired energy, wherein the search program is at least one of: a linear program and a binary search.