June 26th, 2025

PlantPredict

Improvements

Sub-Hourly Energy Storage Modeling
We’ve improved PlantPredict’s energy storage model by now supporting sub-hourly modeling of the charging and discharging of battery energy storage systems. The energy storage model uses the same weather file time interval as the PV energy model and when this is sub-hourly, the energy storage system now accurately tracks state of charge (SOC) at a sub-hourly interval.
Clone to Block-Builder (from Map Builder)
We’ve added a new option from the Map Builder interface within the prediction to “Clone to Block Builder”. This clones the prediction and converts it to a Block Builder prediction in one step and avoids the accidental erasure of the Map Builder prediction and associated GIS data.

Reduced .PPD File Size
We’ve changed the prediction export process to greatly reduce the .PPD file size (which can become quite cumbersome for predictions with sub-hourly or multi-year weather data). Previously, the weather data was included in the .PPD file export. Now, weather data is saved in a separate file storage area on the cloud and the .PPD includes a weather file key to map to the weather data.
Improved Batch Prediction UX
The progress bar now appears sooner to indicate actual state of processing faster

Fixed a bug on the Results Page for multi-year predictions. Previously, the 12x24 matrix of results did not include data for Year 1, including the case when a single year of data spanned two calendar years.
Fixed an issue on the Plant Summary 8760 Excel download file where the soiling loss decimal precision was rounded to the nearest whole number within the Environmental Conditions section. These values are no longer rounded.

The buildable area has been added to the layout report in the PDF downloadable from the application.

GCR-Capacity Performance Boost
The GCR-Capacity analysis tool has been significantly optimized, delivering results up to 6× faster than before.