New software helps plan and customise PV plants

GERMANY: Valentin Software GmbH, located in Berlin, will be presenting its new planning software PV*SOL premium at the world's largest trade fair for the solar industry for the very first time.

With a new intuitive user interface, PV*SOL premium will succeed the company's simulation program PV*SOL Expert starting in June - it will help users plan and visualize solar power plants in detail.

As with the previous versions, the new version has, at its core, the analysis of shading for roof-top and free-standing plants in 3D mode: it calculates how often the modules are under shade on average and how that affects the plant yield, then presenting these results graphically. Users can select all of the shading objects freely and place them on the premises or the building in any way desired.

Among its new features, PV*SOL premium takes own consumption into account precisely, since it can also display the electricity stored in the battery systems, in contrast to its predecessor. The program imports current load profiles on the basis of hourly, quarter-hourly or minute values, which significantly eases the input of the load curves.