PVDESIGN FOR DEVELOPERS
PV plant prospecting at the speed of lightDoes it frustrate you—or your manager—that your time is terribly wasted on manually optimizing PV plants designs and calculating energy yields? How many apps do you use for gathering PV plant project's documents to apply for permits? How many engineering hours do you need to prospect a site?
TIGHT SOLAR LCOE BY MAXIMISING ENERGY PRODUCTION
Craft is for pottery
Lack of highly specialised software leads your engineering team to work across a variety of non-integrated apps. Such as CAD software and its plethora of not-so-updated plugins, legacy software or your favourite spreadsheet app.
Imagine your engineering team scouting plots of land at 2X higher velocity. There is a better way to keep LCOE low by maximizing energy production in your designs. There is a better way to grow your project pipeline through software.
Head-to-toe
Start with a land file and get a comprehensive engineering docs pack without jumping up and down between apps. From layout or electrical reports to energy yield and LCOE. Ready to your off-taker.
Substation engineering
Automatically design the basic engineering of the step-up substation of your PV plant. Get a complete SLD and a fully detailed report based on your inputs.
DIY
Empower your engineering teams to carry out feasibility analysis and plant designs. Avoid outsourcing these tasks and save money.
Sharing is caring
Stop emailing project files with colleagues and mess it up with document versions. Access, clone, iterate, and compare site projects across the entire organization. All plans include unlimited seats.
Lives in the cloud
Say bye to manually updating your plugins. Our development team deploys new features twice a week. And you get them in no time. Just logging in your favourite browser.
Tailored for solar PV
By gathering accurate irradiance data, the LCOE for your ground-mounted PV project is solid.
From a kml file to your PV plant technical docs pack in 8 easy steps
The design interface guides you through the steps to get your plant proposal documents. Rely on algorithmic calculations or fine-tune their results to get your desired outcome.
Optimize land use
Prospect sites efficiently
Quote projects with accurate BoM, CAPEX, and LCOE
Find the optimal layout with GCR, tilt and DC/AC ratio iterations
Simplify your interconnection process
Determine project capacity and energy yield
Build a stronger project pipeline. Speed up your prospecting efforts.
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Lightning fast layout
Get a new design from scratch in minutes —including required earthworks. Or clone an existing one and compare them in a matter of three clics.
- pvDesign calculates the volume of earthworks required to install a structure
- It works along with the topography analysis to achieve better compliance with the terrain.
- Get accurate energy yielding and cost estimates.
All your location data in a tab
Use our built-in topography, meteorological, horizon and albedo profile data streams to enhance your designs. Upload your own for a much more tailored simulation.
- Google Earth for topography
- NASA SSE for meteorological data
- PVGIS 5 for horizon and meteo
- MODIS for albedo profiling
Long-range energy yield
Get up to 50 years of energy yield of your plant design using your meteorological, horizon and albedo data. Or use our out-of-the-box data sources.
- PVGIS 5, NASA Power and SSE sources included.
- Input PV module and PV plant losses and understand how it impact energy yield.
- Choose your preferred IAM loss model for PV modules.
The first paperwork you'll love
Download a whole pack of engineering documentation for your project. Including BoQ, design drawings, list of cables or electrical diagrams. Ready to cast to your off-taker or EPCist.
- Design, energy yield and interconnection facility reports.
- Project sheet, bill of quantities, listing of cables in spreadsheet format.
- SLDs and 3D facility layout ready to import to PVsyst or your CAD software.
Join +1,000 top-tier solar developers prospecting faster
Find how Colombian-based utility company Celsia doubled down their project pipeline by embedding pvDesign software into their PV engineering and design workflow.
We use to outsource basic engineering work. Deploying pvDesign enabled my development engineering team do it in-house. After the first month, Celsia reached 1 hectare per megawatt, from 1,5 ha/mW.
Lennin Piñeiro
Developer engineerPlans built for businesses of all sizes
Choose the plan that works best for you
- 10 projects
- Unlimited Designs
- Unlimited Users
- Downloadable detailed documentation in 5 languages
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- 50 projects
- Unlimited Designs
- Unlimited Users
- Downloadable detailed documentation in 5 languages
- Basic Support
- 1 Dedicated Onboarding Session
- Unlimited Projects
- Unlimited Designs
- Unlimited Users
- Downloadable detailed documentation in 5 languages
- Priority Support
- Designated Customer success teams with unlimited training sessions
- Two-factor authentication (2FA) settings
- SAML access with your corporate identity provider
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Start accelerating your PV plant design and engineering today. Our team of specialists is happy to answer your questions and help grow your PV business.
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