Efficiency Assessments of a Dual-Axis Solar Tracker for Energy Harvesting in Malaysia

To ensure countries' food security and enhance agricultural sustainability, indoor farming is among the methods that can be implemented. However, to support the indoor farming system a vast amount of electricity is needed. Supplying power to agricultural activities using an optimized renewable energy system will increase the system's reliability in the long term. A dual-axis tracker system is developed to become the alternative power supply of an indoor farm. The tracker system performance under Malaysia’s weather conditions was investigated and analysed over a day. The developed system has shown its ability to provide adequate power to the load. Besides that, the tracker power output was found to be dependent on solar radiation. The tracker system also has good efficiency of 16.75%.