In a June 2007 report, the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories concluded that central receiver solar energy production would become economically viable if the price of its single largest cost contributor (the heliostat) could be significantly reduced.

Solaflect's patent-pending platform technology, the SunTrakker™ system, solves this problem. SunTrakker costs a third less, weighs a third less, and constructs in a third the time of its next closest competitor - all while maintaining the highest standards of efficacy and durability. By reducing the cost of heliostat mirror arrays, SunTrakker makes central receiver solar energy production economically viable - without subsidies or credits - today.

SunTrakker is a new type of heliostat. Based on Tension-Compression technology, it sets the standard for: durability, robustness, extreme lightweight, modularity, ease of transport, speed of field assembly, and low-cost. Developed over years of field and bench testing - its elegant and simple ("gee, why didn't we think of that?") design is so unique that this proprietary, patent-pending, disruptive system will serve as the only logical front-end platform for today's next generation of Central Receiver Concentrated Solar.