Hizir Apaydin

Dear Furkan, Yes the simulation takes into account the shading factors based on your 3D scene

Dear Furkan, You can find in this help page the detailed procedure to create a zone: https://www.pvsyst.com/help/zones_of_tables.htm Just draw your zone above the imported scene and click on "Fill zone":

Dear Kien, The "by Wp" option is related to the total installed power of your system, not the price of individual PV modules. For a system of 500kWp, 0.5$/Wp will be equal to a total system price of 250 000 USD (500 * 1000 * 0.5). If you should give us details about your system (total installed power, number of modules etc...) we would be able to give you the exact calculation. You can send details of your project (for example screenshot of Economic Evaluation tool) to support@pvsyst.com Regards.

Dear Furkan, This is a correct way to perform the simulation. Regarding the missing option "Transform to ground object", you need to update to last version of PVsyst, this is a recent option. Regards. Hizir

Dear Barbadori, Ground objects are objects representing the topography of your location, meaning the terrain on which you will put your panels and other shading objects. Trees are not ground objects and should not be selected in this section. Moreover, in order to speed up shadings calculations, it’s very important to simplify your 3D scene by removing unnecessary and complex objects. For example, do not include in your 3D scene a tree which will not shade any panel or a complex building with useless details such as windows, doors etc... Simplifying and removing useless trees should improve your simulation performance. Regards. Hizir

Dear Daniel, With the "Auto-altitude" tool the tilt is readjusted according to the base slope of the terrain. You can check this behaviour by opening the "List and management of objects" after using the "Auto-altitude". The tilt and azimuth are updated according to the base slope:

Dear Furkan, The procedure to create zones is described in this help page: https://www.pvsyst.com/help/zones_of_tables.htm Check "Create tracking fields" if you want your tables to be created as trackers. Regards. Hizir

Dear Roberto, You are kindly requested to export and send your project (menu "File>Export project") and log files (menu "File>Export logs") to support@pvsyst.com so that we may investigate your issue. Regards Hizir

Dear Muhammad, Tables need to be placed after importing the topography in order to follow the terrain. However, you can still reajust the position of your tables on the ground afterwards by using "Auto-altitude option" : - Select all your tables and right-click on them. Then choose "Automatic altitude" option in the contextual menu: - Click on "Set auto. altitude": - Your tables will be placed on the ground: Regards. Hizir

How to import a topology from Sketchup? Open Sketch Pro Click the Add Location tool on the Location toolbar or select File>Geolocation>Add Location. In the Add Location window that appears, type an address or intersection where your desired terrain is located. Click the Search button, and an aerial view of your location appears in the window. Click Select Region in the upper right. Drag the corners of the selection box to refine the location. Click the Grab button in the upper right, and your location’s terrain is imported into your model as a layer. In the layers list, make Snapshot layer invisible and Terrain layer visible : Right click on the ground image and select Unlock then Explode From menu File>Export>3D model, save the terrain as .DAE file In PVsyst 3D scene, from the menu File>Import>Import a 3D scene (3DS, DAE,PVC), select and import the .DAE file Click on OK in the import dialog: your 3D object is imported in the 3D scene Right-click on it and select Transform to a ground object

Converting an Autocad .DWG to .DAE from Sketchup • Open Sketchup Pro • Click on File>Import and select an Autocad .DWG file • Click on File>Export>3D model • Select Collada (*.DAE) and save your file. • In PVsyst 3D scene, from the menu File>Import>Import a 3D scene (3DS, DAE,PVC), select and import your file .DAE file

How to import a ground topography from GoogleEarth? • Open Google Earth Pro (this software is free even if it’s called “Pro”) • From the menu Tools>Options>Navigation, check Do not automatically tilt while zooming (in order to be always in a perpendicular top view from the ground) • Select a location by setting an address or by scrolling with the mouse • Click on the Path tool and draw as many points as possible with the mouse to define the desired area (the polygon tool will only generate the elevation data for the polygon’s corners, it’s not sufficient to extract the topography of the polygon area) • On Altitude tab, select Clamped to ground Click on OK to close the path tool Select the generated path and save it as a KML file : Go to https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert_input Select Plain text as Output format Select your KML file from Upload your files here Select Semi-colon for Plain text delimiter Select Best available source in Add DEM elevation data list (you can also manually select a source and compare it with other sources to select the best one) Click on Show advanced parameters Select No for Repeat header row in plain-text output Select Yes for Output UTM coordinates Click on Convert Copy the generated content Past the content to Excel Click on menu Data>Convert and select Delimited file Click on Next and select Semi-colon as delimiter, click on Next Remove the first 4 columns (from type to utm_zone), keep only columns utm_easting, utm_northing and altitude Save as .CSV and close Excel In PVsyst 3D scene, from the menu File>Import>Import ground data (CSV), select and import your file Your topography should be correctly imported. Please note that if you are in the Northern hemisphere you might need to rotate the ground object by 180° around the scene origin in order for it to be properly placed

Dear Nayeem, You are kindly requested to export (PVsyst menu File>Export logs) and send us your log files to support@pvsyst.com so that we may investigate the issue. Kind regards Hizir

Dear JGM, This feature is indeed part of our planned developments. We currently do not have a planned release date for it. Regards, Hizir

Dear Ree, You can use the zone tool to fill the area with modules: https://www.pvsyst.com/help/zones_of_tables.htm In the zone tool, you have the option to set the height of the modules from the ground. Regards, Hizir

Dear Emir, It's hard to analyze the discrepancy without viewing your files. Could you please send them to support@pvsyst.com (your source .KML or .KMZ file if you have them and your CSV file) We will study them in detail. Regards. Hizir

Dear JaHu, We thank you for providing us details of your pricing. Currently in PVsyst you can define 2 different daily tariff (Peak / Off Peak), which can be combined with 2 seasonal tariff (summer/winter). It's not possible to define a third daily pricing, nor a weekday depending price (price different for Saturday and Sunday in your example). The only way is to use a custom CSV file with all the hours of the year and the corresponding price for this hour. However, in your example you have a size dependent charge (maximum demand and network access charge), which is currently not managed by PVsyst in the economic evaluation. You will be able to only define the fix pricing corresponding to each hour (2.290, 1.850, 1.410). For the monthly charge dependent part, a solution would be to create a fixed yearly operating cost corresponding to the total manually precalculated charge for your installation size). Regards. Hizir

Dear Debbie, This is indeed a known issue of the last version. We have already corrected it and the fix will be available in the upcoming version. Regards. Hizir.

Dear Marco, Yes we have already noticed this issue. A corrective patch will be available soon. Regards Hizir

Dear Antonnio, You are kindly invited to send your log files (menu File>Export logs), customer ID and license number to support@pvsyst.com Regards. Hizir

Dear kjs55, We thank you for this suggestion. We will study the possibility of implementing this modification or not for a later version. Regards

Dear DVIR, The transfer of project workspace is not automatic. You have to export your workspace from the old computer and import it on the new computer. From PVsyst main menu, open "File", then "Workspaces", "Export", "Export workspace to ZIP file" On the new computer, open "File", then "Workspaces", "Import", "Import workspace from ZIP file" If you need more specific assistance on this subject, please send an email to support@pvsyst.com Regards.

Dear Julien, We thank you very much for your advices and for providing us this example. We have already made an important refactoring of the economic evaluation tool for an upcoming version. Feed-in and consumption tariffs will be clearly separated in two disctinct tabs, with their own and specifics parameters (currently, defined peak/off-peak time ranges apply for both tariffs). Moreover, accounting depreciation will be configurable specifically for each asset and not globally. And finally, IRR (Internal Rate of Return) value has been added to the list of financial results. The example you provided is very interesting in term of interface and usability. Currently in PVsyst, you can define fully customized prices for all the hours of the year by importing a CSV file, even it is less straightforward and ergonomic. We have taken note of all these elements and will continue to improve our economic evaluation tool. Regards.

Dear Shantanu, We thank you for reporting us this issue. Could you please export and send your project to support@pvsyst.com so that we can investigate on this issue (File>Export project) Regards.

Dear Thet, The Carbon Balance is currently part of the Economic Evaluation tool. You can access it from "Project" dialog, "Economic evaluation" button, then click on "Carbon Balance" tab. You can either choose to print it or not in the final report by checking/unchecking the corresponding checkbox Regards,