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August 14, 2025

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PlantPredict

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New Features and Improvements!

  • 3D Shade Calculation Speed Enhancement: We’ve completely revamped our 3D shade engine to to reduce calculation time without sacrificing accuracy! The new calculation engine provides a giant leap forward in shade calculation time for PlantPredict and the large-scale solar industry. Our internal benchmarking is showing speed improvement on the order of 50x faster than version 12.14.0 for a 100MW terrain-following tracker system on complex terrain using full precision, detailed mode (e.g., no sun binning). Similarly, we are clocking dramatically reduced processing times compared to the industry-leading desktop performance model for systems over just a few MW.
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  • 3D Shade Object Rendering: The 3D shade scene now supports the rendering and inclusion of non-PV objects within the shade calculations. These need to be supplied within the PVC file upload. When present, they will be rendered in the scene and will be included in the shade calculations.
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  • Smooth and Responsive 3D Scene Pan and Zoom: We’ve greatly improved the rendering of 3D scenes and shadow casting to reduce stress on your browser memory. Panning and Zooming within the scene is now much more responsive to user control making for a better user experience when inspecting shadow casting and heatmaps.
  • **New Map Builder CSV Array Area Export: **It is now possible to export a CSV file containing a breakdown of system information for each array area. For each boundary area, this includes the total land area, buildable area, MWdc, module quantity and rack quantity.
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  • **PLP-1000 Background View Toggle: **It is now possible to toggle between satellite view and terrain view for the PLP-1000 array layout export.

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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Run Log page could become unresponsive when many predictions are being run simultaneously (via API for example).

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Pro Tools

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Terrain Pro

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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Terrain Pro would not recognize a mapping schema for CSV imports.

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Voltage Pro

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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Voltage Pro would improperly configure the prediction in PlantPredict when a weather file was chosen without DHI. Now, if a weather file is chosen without DHI from within Voltage Pro, the prediction correctly handles this situation by using the DIRINT decomposition model.