US 12,271,661 B1
Land usability metric generation for photovoltaic systems
Cédric Leroy, Austin, TX (US); Marc Hermann, West Palm Beach, FL (US); and Egor Sanin, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to BrightNight Power LLC, West Palm Beach, FL (US)
Filed by BrightNight Power LLC, West Palm Beach, FL (US)
Filed on Nov. 26, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/960,689.
Int. Cl. G06F 30/13 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/13 (2020.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
retrieving, from a geographic database, geographic information of a geographic area;
segmenting the geographic area into one or more regions;
executing a buildability algorithm using as input the geographic information to determine buildable portions of the one or more regions;
executing a photovoltaic (PV) array placement algorithm using as input a total area of the buildable portions of the one or more regions to determine a baseline PV capacity for the one or more regions;
executing the PV array placement algorithm using as input the buildable portions of the one or more regions to place inverter blocks each comprising an inverter and a plurality of PV modules within the buildable portions of the one or more regions to determine an actual PV capacity for the one or more regions; and
generating a data structure to associate the one or more regions with a respective ratio of the baseline PV capacity to the actual PV capacity for each of the one or more regions.