Featured in The Land of the Rising Sun – 02-2014

Utilizing full planning potential

PVplanet: PVplanet, the PV Plant Engineering Toolbox, realizes a new, software-based planning concept for large-scale ground-mounted photovoltaic power plants, developed by Siemens AG in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics. Layout planners not associated with Siemens AG can also profit from this software as Siemens offers a technical consulting service and applies this planning tool to optimize the economic efficiency of their customers plant layouts, write Siemens Martin Bischoff and Marcus König.

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pv magazine

11 Feb 2014

A question: “When decreasing the tilt angle, one can reduce the table distances and increase the area utilization without taking higher table losses. What is the effect on inverter utilization, energy output and revenue?” These and a variety of other parameters are at the planner’s disposal to influence the quality of the resulting photovoltaic power …

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