Slipform extruded ballast
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Slipform extruded ballast
Continuous concrete track, in production since 2012. Optional white reflective finish for bifacial gain. Fire break, robot path, and steel isolation in one pour.
Core tech
Licensed manufacturing. Proven suppliers.
Same·Point does not invent a tracker or a flow meter. We manufacture licensed structures for brownfield and constrained land, and we specify mature thermal and control equipment from industry leaders.
Manufacturing licenses
Two licenses sit under the platform.
Same·Point is a licensed manufacturer of Alion Energy’s A-frame Single Axis Terrain Following Tracker and of Cortex Composites GCCM. Those are the structures. Heat pumps, CSP, storage, ORC, irrigation, and metering are purchased — not licensed.
Design philosophy: raise the return on assets the customer already owns. Each part is specified to do as many jobs as physics and reliability allow. The array stays PV. A 50-acre radiator reservation is the cooling plant.
Alion Energy — licensed manufacturer
A-frame Single Axis Terrain Following Tracker
A ballasted single-axis tracker with an A-frame and arc structure. Wind-tunnel verified at 47 m•s (105 mph). Sites from small arrays to 200 MW+ operate on four continents.
- Most wind resistance per kilogram of steel — stronger, lighter than typical torque-tube trackers. 11:1 gearing enables about 30% more modules per drive.
- No structural part heavier than 20 kg. The design is already installable by two people and is future-proofed for humanoid robotic installation.
- Alion pioneered terrain-following trackers: flexible couplings between tables (2014), up to 15% slope, 5% slope change every six modules.
- Foundation options on the same tracker: single pile, micropile, slipform-extruded ballast, precast or cast-in-place ballast, GCCM roll-out mats, and cable earth anchors.
- Reflective foundations — slipform white concrete since 2012, GCCM from 2027. Specified white on a cooling sheet you already roll — about four percent more energy at the meter, not more megawatts.
- Wind
- 47 m•s / 105 mph tunnel-verified
- Rotation
- Up to ±60°
- Slope
- Up to 15% (8.5°)
- Gearing
- 11:1 · ~30% more modules per drive
- Part mass
- No structural piece > 20 kg
- Scale
- Small sites to 200 MW+ · 4 continents
One tracker. Six ways to hold the ground.
Geotech decides the foundation. The A-frame does not change. Clients pick the option that meets wind, soils, and schedule after design safety factors are met.
Precast / cast-in-place ballast
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Precast / cast-in-place ballast
Factory precast or site-cast concrete ballast where piles are not wanted — no penetration, a fast set, and a path to a reflective finish.
Micropile
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Micropile
For rock, hardpan, and restricted vibration — small-diameter piles instead of large driven sections.
Single pile
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Single pile
Conventional steel piles where soils allow penetration and corrosion class is acceptable.
GCCM roll-out (2027 NPI)
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GCCM roll-out (2027 NPI)
Cortex geosynthetic cementitious composite mat. Roll, wet, and install with skid steers. Each earth strip is 2.384 m east to west; grass between rows is 4.24 m (GCR 0.35). Built for brownfield speed, without a long geotechnical campaign.
Cable earth anchors (2027 NPI)
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Cable earth anchors (2027 NPI)
Gripple Solar Anchoring Kit (PVAK) — percussion-driven cable anchors with a Dynamic tensioner. Tension flips the head, duckbill-style, into a load-bearing soil cone. For a few tables in remote or access-limited locations where a pile driver or ballast train is not worth mobilizing.
Cortex Composites — licensed manufacturer
GCCM that is ballast, reflector, and brownfield foundation.
Cortex is a non-woven geosynthetic cementitious composite mat. It arrives dry, conforms to grade, hydrates with water, and hardens without formwork or a batch plant. Same·Point is a licensed manufacturer.
- Two thicknesses — 14 mm and 18.75 mm — combined to meet uplift, downforce, and overturn at 47 m•s / 105 mph.
- Exterior, transition, and interior rows use different stacks so material follows load, not a single overbuilt foundation.
- Roll-out, wet, and install with light equipment (skid steers). No formwork, no batch plant, no heavy concrete trains.
- Suited to brownfield: non-penetrating, limited geotech, small crews, no heavy concrete trains.
- Each roll-out strip is 2.384 m east to west. Grass between every row is 4.24 m (GCR 0.35) — the site is not a white plaza.
- White is a spec on a cooling sheet you already roll. About four percent more energy at the meter. Same field. Same interconnect.
Thickness by row — 105 mph (47 m•s)
| Row | Stack | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Exterior end | 18.75 mm + 14 mm | 32.75 mm |
| Exterior middle | 2 × 14 mm | 28 mm |
| Transition | 18.75 mm | 18.75 mm |
| Interior | 14 mm | 14 mm |
See how we combine Alion Energy, Cortex Composites, and specified plant to add more AI compute.
View the install sequence (NDA)
Reflective foundations are not a coating.
You roll the sheet to reject heat. Specifying it white is how that sheet also charges storage as the afternoon falls off. Same field. Same interconnect. About four percent more energy at the meter — not more megawatts.
Commercial equipment — not licensed
Heat, storage, flow, and recovery from market leaders.
Specified bench
Catalogue equipment we buy. Marks of their owners — not an exclusive or endorsed partnership.
For large, mature technologies Same·Point is a buyer, not a licensee. We specify commercial products, integrate them on the thermal ladder, and keep rack cooling independent of recovery. Photographs below are illustrative of the equipment class — not OEM product shots.
Industrial heat pumps
High-temperature heat pumps for the thermal ladder after Stage 1 cooling is proven — including machines that deliver 160°C process heat.
CSP troughs — bird-safe design
Proven parabolic-trough collectors for process-heat upgrades on recovered brownfield aperture — including 160°C troughs, not a science project.
Thermal energy storage
Shop-welded indoor steel tanks so recovered heat and trough output become hours, not a momentary dump — modular, plant-room scale, not a field of silos.
Organic Rankine Cycle
Phase 2 books about 5.8 MW from the heat engine. Phase 3 books about 13.2 MW. The reject field is shared. No dry cooler as the sink.
Engine heat recovery
Phase 2 is 48 engines of the G3520H class and one spare, still on the grid. Phase 3 is 12 of the 34SG class, 45 of the same class, and 4 spare, and it is full off-grid.
Irrigation, manifolds, and control
Ground-coupled loops, mixing manifolds, and flow control from industrial automation and irrigation catalogues.
Ultrasonic flow and sensing
Clamp-on ultrasonic metering and industrial flow sensing from market leaders.
Digital twin and MPC
A plant digital twin and model-predictive controller sit above the meters. Loop, TES, heat-pump, and ORC setpoints are dispatched from the control room — not from isolated local loops.
The structures are licensed. The thermal plant is specified. The moat is energy and materials experience — plus 282 pending claims.
A briefing covers which foundation, which reflector, and which supplier stack fits an existing 100 MWdc+ PV farm or a constrained campus.
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