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October 5th, 2023

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Terrain Pro is Live!!!!

We’re excited to announce that our earthwork assessment tool Terrain Pro is now LIVE for all PlantPredict Pro & Enterprise customers. The technology behind Terrain Pro has been under development for more than a year, and we are very happy to share this with our PlantPredict Pro and Enterprise Subscribers! It is now easier than ever to do Earthwork Assessments for your early stage PV Projects. This is especially true if you are considering the use of Terrain Following Trackers. Terrain Pro is accessed from within the Design Pro Application. Every Scenario created within Design Pro will have a Terrain Pro run automatically executed. Click on the Terrain Pro icon to dig deeper and evaluate multiple configurations to really understand earthwork cut/fill quantities for your project site.
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If you would like to learn more about Terrain Pro, join us for a webinar on October 19th. Register here
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Other enhancements that are part of this release…

Select and See MWdc has been enabled in PlantPredict Map Builder Select a group of arrays or tables and see how much MWdc is included in the selection.
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Buildable Area is now included as Site Boundary Meta-data in the MapBuilder KMZ export When you download a KMZ file from within the PlantPredict MapBuilder tool, we have started adding Meta-data to the site boundary. If you have a site that has many site boundaries, this Meta-data can be very helpful. We currently include the MWdc and the Buildable Area.
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Default Statuses are now available on Weather, Inverter and Module Files For Company Administrators of PlantPredict Business, Pro and Enterprise subscribers. Several releases back, we enabled the ability to define if you want the default status of your prediction to be Draft-Shared or Draft-Private. This was a very popular enhancement, so we expanded this to also include Weather, Inverter and Module Files. Company Admins can go into the Company Defaults section of the application and specify the company preference in the Miscellaneous tab.
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Create DC As Company Level Default Company Administrators can also now specify a Default for the “Create DC As” field in the MapBuilder Tool. Previously, this was defaulted to “Arrays” for all users, but now our Paid Subscribers with Company Admins can control what is the default selection for this field.
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Lock has been added to Layout Number of Rows field in the PlantPredict Block Builder tool We have been adding “Locks” that will keep certain values within the Block Builder tool when you change Module selections in your DC Field. One field that we missed with our initial implementation of the Locks, was the Layout Number of Rows. So, we have added a Lock on that field as part of this release.
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Ability to turn on/off the Base 99.6 Cooling for Transformer derating from within MapBuilder This function has always been available in the Block Builder tool, so we have added this to the MapBuilder as well.
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Information Icon has been added to the Loss Factor tree in Prediction Results We wanted to make accessing the Loss Factor documentation easier for our users, so we added an Info Icon in the Prediction Results screen.
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Updates to the PlantPredict SDK For our PlantPredict Enterprise customers who utilize the PlantPredict SDK to script automation using our API, we have made some really nice updates.
  • The /NodalJson endpoint now supports a new optional parameter of nodalParameters. You can now specify which outputs specifically you are requesting and the API will only returned those properties, omitting any properties that were not requested. For more details visit our API Change Log at plantpredict-api
  • The SDK now supports negation of the result summary losses. E.g. prediction.get_results_summary(negate_losses=True) will return negative and positive loss values that match what is seen in the PlantPredict UI.
  Minor Bug Fixes and Enhancements
  • There was a bug in the Nighttime Disconnect function, which has been corrected. The Loss Factor for Nighttime Disconnect will more accurately reflect the impact of Nighttime Disconnect
  • When creating small rooftop arrays in MapBuilder using String Inverters, the Inverters Per Array was not updating correctly. This has been Fixed.