Abstract: A solar energy tracking assembly for a solar energy panel can include a frame that supports the solar energy panel and pivots the solar energy panel between a retracted position generally parallel to a support surface on which the tracking assembly rests and an upright position. The frame can include a circular track on which the solar energy panel rotates about an axis of the circular track. The circular track is supported by a combination of support beam and footings that both bear the force of the solar panel as well as bear the torsional force from wind loading on the solar panel.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for determining the placement of one or more lightning rods in one or more circles of non-interference in a solar field, where the placement is based on a determined location of one or more ungrounded triangular heliostat structures and one or more circles of interference, where the one or more circles of interference are areas within a range of motion of one or more heliostats disposed on corners of the one or more triangular heliostat structures in the solar field.