The latest version includes shading analysis and civil design tools. Solar engineers can adjust table layouts based on different shading scenarios in order to optimise system economics and address key challenges of the civil design early on in the project.
Clean energy targets being introduced by regulators all over the world mean that developers are increasingly facing the challenges of limited land availability. Furthermore, a growing number of solar designers have to work with complex designs including terrain restrictions and various shading scenarios. PVcase’s newest release is designed to help solar engineers to address these challenges and stay ahead of the curve.
PVcase 2.0 enables generation of location and time-based shading projections, eliminating the need of any subsequent changes at the later stages of the design process. Engineers working on hilly projects will also be able to perform surface slope analysis on the north and south facing single axis tracker tables and set their piling range.
“The ability to assess and mitigate shading losses in a few seconds saves an enormous amount of engineering time each day” said David Trainavicius, CEO and founder of PVcase.
The latest version of software utilises a solar position algorithm, developed by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
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