Re-keying geometry, twice
The architectural model goes to a PV tool by way of a spreadsheet. Every re-key is a chance for orientation, area or shading context to silently diverge from the drawings.
Solutions · Engineers
Engineering-grade analysis, with the reasoning kept visible
For building, electrical and solar engineers: a detailed PV engine with an explicit component loss waterfall, temperature and inverter behaviour, deterministic string checks — and calculation workpapers that make every material figure independently re-derivable.
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The problem
What this work actually looks like today
Losses as one opaque number
A single "system loss" percentage hides the physics. When a reviewer asks what soiling, wiring or temperature contributed, the answer should be a stated waterfall — not a shrug.
Uncertainty unacknowledged
Single-point yield numbers hide the weather, product and modelling uncertainty they carry. Ranges that nobody declared are the first thing a reviewer challenges.
Reports that can't be checked
Reconstructing a result from a delivered report usually means starting over. The audit trail — inputs, substitutions, formulas — lives in the engineer's head, not in the deliverable.
What changes
With SolaMaxa in the workflow
Explicit physics, on the record
Hourly resource modelling, anisotropic sky irradiance, sequential loss steps each with their basis and source, temperature models with mounting classes — every assumption visible and versioned.
Modelled uncertainty, stated as such
Deterministic ranges over documented components — explicitly ranges, never dressed up as probabilistic P50/P90 statements.
Electrical checks as support
String-level checks against inverter limits — as engineering support with explicit outcomes, never as certification. Unavailable limits are reported, never guessed.
Workpapers behind every figure
Material results resolve to immutable, hash-verified workpapers with formulas, substitutions and reconciliation — designed so an independent reviewer can re-perform the calculation.
Where this is grounded
A readiness gate before the run
Detailed runs are gated on a deterministic readiness check across geometry, solar resource, products, thermal, electrical, shading and system architecture. Missing inputs are listed exactly — never invented — and the fidelity level is stated on the run.