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✅ Licence Unlimited PC
✅ Active Period: Lifetime (can reinstall)
✅ Support: Windows 10, 11
✅ Install Instructions: Available (video/text)
✅ Update Application: No
✅ It should be noted, buying = understanding product use
Files & Prices may increase or decrease at any time
The following new features and changes are included:
- Up-to-date offline database.
The following bugs have been fixed:
- 3D: In some cases the main button bar was not displayed correctly.
- New license management:
- Crash when starting PV*SOL (UUID not available on some computers).
- Crash if the license file could not be written.
With PV*SOL premium, the industry standard for photovoltaic design programs, you can design and simulate all types of modern PV systems. From the small rooftop system with a few modules to medium-sized systems on commercial roofs to solar parks – PV*SOL premium supports you with numerous tools for design and simulation.
The unique 3D visualization is the highlight of PV*SOL premium. You can visualize all common types of systems in 3D, whether roof-integrated or roof-mounted, whether on small angled roofs, large industrial halls or open spaces – with up to 7,500 mounted modules or up to 10,000 roof-parallel modules, and calculate the shading based on 3D objects. With the realistic shading from surrounding objects, you can achieve the highest reliability for your yield forecast.
All other design types from PV*SOL are of course also available to you in PV*SOL premium. Whether calculating self-consumption, designing battery storage or integrating electric vehicles – with PV*SOL you can implement all customer wishes in no time at all.
Our extensive product database includes over 26,000 PV modules, 7,500 inverters, 5,500 battery systems and many other products such as electric vehicles and performance optimizers. It is updated regularly by the product manufacturers themselves, so you can always work with the latest data.
You can generate high-quality project reports for your customers that can be edited as required. Circuit diagrams with the necessary safety devices can also be created, e.g. for submission to the relevant authorities.
The current feed-in tariffs are available in our database for the calculation of economic efficiency. By adding the information on the system costs, you will receive a detailed economic analysis of the system over 20 years. This allows you to create an initial offer in just a few minutes.
PV*SOL premium is available in German , English , Spanish , French , Italian , Polish , Czech , Portuguese and Turkish . And with project reports available in 23 languages, language barriers are a thing of the past.
Our technical support team and our help pages offer you assistance with your questions. In our forum you can address more complex questions to our team and other PV*SOL premium users.
Would you like to try out whether PV*SOL premium fits your design process?
Product highlights
Detailed 3D shading analysis
A three-dimensional representation of surrounding objects is extremely important for determining the reduction in yield due to shading. With PV*SOL premium, you can visualize all roof-integrated and mounted systems – even in open spaces – with up to 7,500 mounted modules or up to 10,000 roof-parallel modules in 3D and calculate the shading based on 3D objects.
Extrude buildings in 3D
Buildings and objects can be created quickly and easily using floor plans, cadastral maps and map screenshots. First the contours are traced, then the building can be extruded by entering the height (any type of building with a pitched or flat roof). From PV*SOL premium 2024, high-resolution orthophotos and elevation data are available via the Google Solar API. This makes the PV design in 3D even faster and more accurate.
Global climate data available
PV*SOL premium provides you with the latest TMY data of the DWD (current state 2017, averaging period 1995-2012) for Germany and more than 8,000 further climate locations for the whole world based on Meteonorm 8.2 (data period 2001-2020). Locations not included in Meteonorm can be interpolated using satellite data and neighboring ground measuring stations. In addition, PVGIS, Solcast and SolarAnywhere are available as providers. You can use the interactive map to conveniently select the climate data. Own measurement data can be imported via files in DWD, Meteonorm or WBV format.
More program details
Import of 3D models
3D models of different file formats can be imported to enter object data. This adds another important tool to the existing option of reading floor plans, cadastral maps and screenshots from web-based satellite maps (e.g. Google Earth) directly into the 3D visualization.
Module assignment in 3D view
The roof areas are covered with the maximum possible number of modules automatically, or manually by tracing the areas to be covered by PV. If required, PV*SOL premium can show you the annual radiation reduction (direct and diffuse radiation) for every point of the PV area and for each module. Thanks to an interface to the planning tool K2 Base from mounting system manufacturer K2 Systems, systems no longer have to be planned twice.
Polymorphic interconnection in combination with optimizers
Flexibility has been significantly increased when interconnecting the modules that are automatically placed on an object. The new option of polystring interconnection means that completely different strings can be connected in parallel or in series to an MPP tracker. Even different modules in one string, e.g. defective modules that are no longer available, can be replaced with similar ones.
Optimization of the module interconnection
You decide whether you want to connect several module areas to one inverter or choose a separate inverter for each module area, or combine both. The current status of the system check is displayed in the configuration window at all times. The automatic interconnection has been fundamentally improved; in addition, interconnections can be suggested for SolarEdge products.
With the 2025 program version of PV*SOL premium , we are introducing a new license model – from the previous device-bound to a user-based license model.
In future, you will be able to obtain user-based licenses, meaning one license per user that can be used on any number of devices, as long as this does not happen at the same time. With the new license, you receive all program and database updates and can always use the latest features. As a License User, you can easily sign in to the desktop application after a one-time registration. In the new License Manager role, you can manage all user licenses independently in the Valentin License Portal.
You can continue to use the licenses you purchased as part of the perpetual model indefinitely. If you would like to continue receiving updates after your software maintenance expires, we are offering all active customers an attractive introductory offer to switch to the new license model until April 30, 2025.
Further new features in PV*SOL premium 2025 include:
- Energy balance now as a Sankey diagram: The Sankey diagram visualizes all energy gains and losses – from solar radiation to the AC energy fed into the grid. Unusually high losses can be identified at a glance and the PV system can be optimized accordingly.
- Create profiles for user data: Do you work for several clients, entering user data manually each time until now? With the new user data profiles, you can create as many user data records as you like and simply load them into your projects.
- Configurable CSV export of simulation results: You can now select specific data series for export. If simulation was carried out in 1-minute resolution, the time step to be exported can also be set in 1-, 10-, 15- or 30-minute resolution. This eliminates the need for time-consuming post-processing in Excel and gives you exactly the data you need.
- NREL Meteosat as a new climate data source: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) offers a high-quality alternative to Meteonorm or PVGIS data for the American continent, as well as Europe, Asia and Africa with the free climate data “Meteosat Prime Meridian”.
All new features and improvements can be found in our release notes.
- Internet connection
- Processor: Intel i3, AMD Ryzen 3 or higher
- RAM: 4 GB
- Hard disk space: 1,2 GB
- Resolution display: at least 1.280 x 768 pixels
- Operating system: Windows 10 (64 bit, latest service pack required), Windows 11 (64 bit)
- Graphics: DirectX compatible (at least Version 9.0c), 2 GB, OpenGL
- Others: Microsoft .Net Framework 4.8
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