Ground-based solar PV power-stations are widely used to build a reasonably productive photovoltaic system and generate revenue from the sale of electricity. The most often used location option for commercial solar power-stations is a land surface installation of all elements of a photovoltaic station (solar batteries, mounting systems, inverters, transformers, and other equipment parts). Advantages of ground placing of a solar power-station:
- Possibility to get a solar power-station of any required power capacity, which is important at the building of backup power-stations when generated power must fully compensate for disappeared electricity from the grid.
- Involving of land lots, that are useless (or not very useful) for agricultural use or any other commercial application.
- Possibility to locate solar panels in such a way, that provides them the optimal spatial orientation.
From one side, such method of equipment placing makes a solar power-station project to be a bit longer on the whole, because it is necessary to elaborate all formal questions related to a land lot. On the other hand, the undoubted advantage of surface solar power-stations is the possibility to install greater (as compared to roof options) amount of solar batteries, in other words, the possibility to construct more powerful solar power-stations.