RELEASE 11.10.0 - PlantPredict

August 31st, 2023 Weather File Updates - NSRDB 20 Year Time Series PlantPredict subscribers now have the ability to download 20 years worth of NSRDM PSM timeseries data (where the data is available) with a single click of a button. This will generate a 20 year weather file that can be used to simulate 20 years worth of energy production.

Most importantly, this weather file can be used within Voltage Pro to do a string sizing simulation. The industry recommends using 20 year time series data when doing a simulation based string sizing analysis, and so adding this capability will streamline the process and make Voltage Pro even better.

SolarAnywhere (CPR) V3.7 weather files are now available Our friends a Clean Power Research recently released version 3.7 of their SolarAnywhere weather data. We have made access to this version available for anyone who has a TGY Unlimited Subscription with SolarAnywhere and has uploaded an API Key into their Company Default settings page.

SolarAnywhere High Resolution Horizon Scene For PlantPredict subscribers who have a TGY Unlimited subscription and API Key setup in PlantPredict, you can easily import the SolarAnywhere High Resolution Horizon Scene for that site with a single click of a button within PlantPredict. Having this High Resolution Horizon Scene will ensure that your far shading losses are accurately reflected in your Yield results.

Quick Edit Screen improvements The Quick Edit feature on PlantPredict Block Builder predictions is a very powerful and handy tool. We have been expanding the fields that are available within the Quick Edit screen recently and the latest addition is the DC Field Post Height and Cell to Module Difference. Now you can quickly and easily update the post height and/or the Cell to Module Difference for all your DC Fields without having to go into the PV Blocks and Arrays screen.

Minor enhancements and Bug Fixes We also fixed several bugs in the software with this release. Below is a short description of these bug fixes and minor enhancements. **Lock Buttons on the DC Field - **With Release 11.7.0 we added the ability to lock certain fields to make sure that they don’t change when changing the Module. This stopped working with a subsequent release, and so we had to refactor the functionality and it is working again as expected. Module Power Tolerances were not saving when adding a new module - This has been fixed **Clicking the Delete button on your keyboard will delete objects in Map Builder **- Users that are used to working in AutoCAD have requested that we enable the Delete key on your keyboard as an option when you want to delete something in the MapBuilder Screen. We have added support for this. Seasonal Tilt was throwing errors - If you went in and updated the Mounting type to Seasonal Tilt and added a seasonal tilt value in one of the months. Then changed the Mounting type to a different selection, the DC field would not save and would throw an error. We have fixed this.

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