Product features

Product features 

 

Operating system                                        

 

Windows 7 (32/64 bit), Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10

 

MAC OS X is supported through the use of a virtual machine running Windows

 

Projects

 

Grid connected systems

 

Stand-Alone systems

New

Grid connected systems with AC-coupled battery storage

New

Grid connected systems with DC-coupled battery storage

New

Creating a new project using the wizard for the dimensioning of the photovoltaic system

Improved

Archives

 

Archive of photovoltaic modules, modifiable and expandable

 

Archive of the inverters, editable and expandable

 

Archive of batteries, editable and expandable

New

Archive of inverter-chargers, editable and expandable

New

Archive of cables and other electrical components managed by the user

 

Archive for consumption of electrical devices

 

Archive consumption profiles

 

Update of modules, inverters, batteries and inverter-chargers archives

New

Project properties

 

No limit to the power of the system

 

Data input: system, designer, customer

 

Project Settings: system temperatures, sizing on power of the inverters, dispersions

 

Location

 

Data tables for the average irradiation of most important locations

 

Insertion of new data of irradiation by the user

 

Importing of the irradiations from PVGIS

 

NASA-SSE world wide irradiations

 

Choice of locations and geographical coordinates with the aid of maps (requires internet connection)

 

Automatically adjust the radiation data based on the location on the map

New

Analysis of azimuth and tilt optimal. Possibility of differentiating the period of the year

 

Automatic insertion of far shading diagram from digital images

 

Import of SunEye obstruction elevations file

New

Editing far shading diagram

 

Far shading loss calculation

 

Near shading loss calculation

Improved

System

 

Representation of the schema of the system in all its parts

 

Calculation of the irradiation on the plane of the panels

 

Calculation of the producibility of the photovoltaic system

 

Checks on the coupling between strings and inverters

 

Checks on the coupling between strings and charge controller

New

Checks on the coupling between battery bank and  inverter-charger

New

Determination of the voltage drops and the flow rates of the cables

 

List of the electrical components of the system

 

MPPT management

 

Microinverter management

New

Commands to cut, copy and paste the elements of the schema within the system schema

 

Selection commands by type of the elements of the system

 

Management of AC Panels connected to the main panel

 

Ability to explicitly specify the cable lengths

 

Verifications of the electrical components

 

Management of the electrical protection groups in the panels

 

Scheme of producibility of the sections of the system

 

Automatic rename of the system components

 

Wizard for the dimensioning of the photovoltaic system

 

Wizard for the definition of cables

 

Wizard for the dimensioning of electrical components

 

Layout

All New

Interactive design of layout over map and 3D view

 

PV systems on roof or on ground

 

Automatic insertion of strings

 

Optimal filling of areas

 

Clear path management on area of strings insertion

 

Automatic insertion of inverters, panels and batteries

 

Edit of arrangement of inserted devices

 

Cables arrangement with measurement of the lengths

 

Management and edit of obstacles in the scene around the system

 

Points of shade evaluation

 

Shade diagram on point

 

Shadowing due to obstacles next to the system

 

Animation of shadings on the PV system

 

Calculation of map of distribution of radiations on areas with automatic mesh refinement

 

Calculation of map of distribution of shading frequency on areas with automatic mesh refinement

 

Management of preview of system layout

 

Preview 2D and 3D of system layout with or without realistic textures

 

Exporting system layout to DWG

 

Exporting system layout to image

 

Results

 

Verifications on the inverter: limits on the voltage, limits on the current, limits on the power

 

Verifications on the inverter: calculation of the input voltage to the inverter calculated by reference to MPPT trackers

 

Verifications on the battery: limits of voltage incoming on charge controller

New

Verifications on the battery: limits of current incoming on charge controller

New

Verifications on the battery: limits of power incoming on charge controller

New

Verifications on the inverter/charger: limits on the battery charging voltage

New

Verifications on the cables: voltage drop, capacity, calculation of the maximum voltage drop in the system

 

Verifications of electrical components

 

Use of PV energy

New

Consumpion coverage

New

Days of autonomy for stand-alone system

New

Economic analysis

 

Analysis of profitability of the system with assessment of financing

 

Cash flow over the life of the system

 

Management of taxation

 

Management of incentive rates

 

Energy sales

 

Tools of analysis of the consumption and self-consumption of the system

 

Export in xls format of the summary tables

 

Electrical scheme

 

Automatic generation of single-line electrical scheme

 

Schema creation options: choice of layout. paper size. height of the character of the texts. display full or partial of modules and strings. The options for creating the schema are saved in the project

 

In the regeneration of the electrical scheme the user can keep the primitives he had created

 

Editing and printing of the electrical scheme with advanced CAD capabilities

 

Exporting to DWG and DXF

 

Print Documentation

 

The technical documentation of the project is produced as editable Word documents obtained from customizable templates

 

Technical report

 

Economic report

 

Bill of cables

 

Bill of electrical components

 

User-created documents

 

Integrated RTF editor

Improved