Bluesol – Photovoltaic Design Software
BlueSol is a software for the design of photovoltaic systems in every country in the world. It allows you to perform the entire process of designing a PV System, from the preliminary assessment of energy generation to the production of final system documentation. Bluesol is a product made with a standard Microsoft interface, very easy to use but at the same time manages every detail of the PV system.
Model the PV system scheme
- Model the system scheme in every detail
- Use of wizards or direct editing
- Edit scheme tree via copying and pasting
- Easily achieve any system configuration
- Create templates of the system
Integrated CAD System
- Import planimetry map as a DXF, DWG or image
- Arrange modules and strings, cables, panels, inverters and connection to the grid
- Insert near obstacles
- Check the result in the 3D integrated
- Export to DWG
Panels, cables and electrical components
- Calculate the voltage drops on the cables
- Checks on electrical components
- Automatic size of the electrical components
- Archives to store the most used components
- Bill of electrical components
Layout 3D
- 3D visualization of layout
- Simulations of shading of near obstacles
- Assessments of irradiations on surfaces
- Export to DWG or to image
Electrical scheme
- Automatically created
- Edit using CAD tools
- Export to DWG
Wizards
- Dimensioning of the photovoltaic system
- Definition of the cables
- Dimensioning of electrical components
- Insertion of the modules
- Insertion of cables
World wide Location
- NASA-SSE world wide irradiations
- Insertion of new data of irradiation by the user
- Importing of the irradiations from PVGISG
- Internet maps support
Economic evaluation
- Detailed economic analysis
- Options to suit needs of different countries
Production of project documentation
- Default and user templates of documents
- Integrated word processor
Product Features
Operating System
- Windows® 2000 Service Pack 3, XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32/64 bit), Windows 8
Projects
- Creating a new project using the wizard for the dimensioning of the photovoltaic system
- Creating a new project from a template
Project properties
- No limit to the power of the system
- Data input: system, designer, customer, additional user data
- Project Settings: system temperatures, sizing on power of the inverters, dispersion
Archives
- Archives of photovoltaic modules and inverters, data obtained from Photon, with more than 20,000 modules and more than 1600 inverters
- Archive of photovoltaic modules, modifiable and expandable
- Archive of the inverters, editable and expandable
- Archive of cables and other electrical components managed by the user
- Archive for consumption of electrical devices
- Archive consumption profiles
Location
- Data tables for the average irradiation of locations most important
- Insertion of new data of irradiation by the user
- Importing of the irradiations from PVGIS
- NASA-SSE world wide irradiations
- Choice of locations and geographical coordinates wi th the aid of maps (requires internet connection)
- Analysis of azimuth and tilt optimal. Possibility of differentiating the period of the year
- Automatic insertion of far shading from digital images
- Editing far shading
- Possibility of multiple far shading on the same system
System
- Representation of the schema of the system in all its parts
- Calculation of the irradiation on the plane of the panels
- Calculation of the production capacity of the photovoltaic system
- Checks on the coupling between strings and inverters
- Calculation of cables according to CEI-UNEL tables
- Determination of the voltage drops and the flow rates of the cables
- List of the electrical components of the system
- Management of MPPT
- Commands to cut, copy and paste the elements of the schema within the system schema
- Selection commands by type of the elements of the system
- Management of AC Panels connected to the main panel
- Ability to explicitly specify the cable lengths
- Verifications of the electrical components
- Management of the electrical protection groups in the panels
- Dimensioning wizard of the photovoltaic system
- Scheme of producibility of the sections of the system
- Automatic rename of the system components
- Wizard for the dimensioning of the photovoltaic system
- Wizard for the definition of cables
- Wizard for the dimensioning of electrical components
Layout
- Importing planimetry from DWG or image
- Inserting strings easy and automated
- Inserting Inverters, panels and counters
- Cables arrangement with measurement of the lengths, that will be used in the verification
- Editing and printing of the layout with advanced CAD capabilities
- Exporting to DWG and DXF
- Wizard for the guided insertion of strings
- Wizard for guided arrangement of cables
- Inserting the Title Block
- 3D visualization of the layout
- Shadowing due to obstacles next to the system
- Distribution of irradiations over the areas
- Animation of shadings on the PV system
Result
- Verifications on the inverter: limits on the voltage, limits on the current, limits on the power
- Verifications on the inverter: calculation of the input voltage to the inverter calculated by reference to MPPT trackers
- Verifications on the cables: voltage drop, capacity, calculation of the maximum voltage drop in the system
- Verifications of electrical components
Economic Analysis
- Analysis of profitability of the plant with assessment of financing
- Diagram of cash flow over the life of the system
- Management of taxation
- Management of incentive rates
- Tools of analysis of the consumption and self-consumption of the system
- Export in xls format of the summary tables
Electrical Scheme
- Automatic generation of single-line electrical scheme
- Schema creation options: choice of layout; paper size; height of the character of the texts; display full or partial of modules and strings. The options for creating the schema are saved in the project
- In the regeneration of the electrical scheme the user can keep the primitives he had created
- Editing and printing of the electrical scheme with advanced CAD capabilities
- Exporting to DWG and DXF
Print Documentation
- The technical documentation of the project is produced as editable Word documents obtained from customizable templates
- Technical report
- Economic report
- Bill of cables
- Bill of electrical components
- User-created documents
- Integrated RTF editor