Ulteig was selected to partner with Wanzek Construction, Inc. to begin the design, construction and energization of a solar farm near Houston, Texas. With a capacity of 350 megawatts AC (460 MW DC), the Red Tailed Hawk solar farm is one of the largest solar developments for Wanzek and the project owner and renewable energy developer, ACCIONA Energía. Upon energizing the more than 850,000 solar modules, enough electricity will be produced to meet the needs of 66,500 Texas households.
As part of a comprehensive scope of work, Ulteig’s team developed an optimized layout that met numerous constraints, including accommodations for county drainage infrastructure and impacts from a potential wind project. The layout needed to consider numerous optimizations such as skew angle to align with existing boundaries and roads, inverter balancing, directional bore routes and messenger system detailing to coordinate with the tracker design — all while still meeting stringent flood depth criteria. This resulted in a strategic layout that met project requirements in a confined area.
The design had to contend with numerous large county-managed drainageways that intersected the project. The team created a layout that met all of the constraints while not having any adverse hydrology impacts offsite.
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