Tutorial 2b: Placing solar panels

This tutorial will learn you how you can create and adjust Solar parks, and how to change the different solar panel options.

Transcript

This tutorial specifically will be about placing solar parks.

To start placing your solar park. Go to edit Solar and place tools.

You can create points by clicking with your left mouse button on either the 2D map or the 3D world. These points will make up the area of your solar park. You can finish the field by double clicking your left mouse button, or by clicking on the first point you created.

To move the entire field.

Click on the solar icon. Move points and then click and drag. If you don't see the solar icon in the 3D world, go to Edit Settings and toggle the Show Hide for the solar markers in the 3D world.

Now let's imagine you'd like to move individual points. To do this, click on the icon again. Select Move Points and click and drag an individual point.

Now to add extra points, click on the marker and tap Edit Solar.

Besides changing the 3D model and layout here into which will delve deeper later, giving your park a name and gaining insight into various statistics. You can see the specific coordinates of the park you've placed, so if you click on any of the plus icons, you will add a point. This can be done for any coordinate in the list.

It will then create extra points on the existing field lines, which we can use to specify further where we want the panels to be.

Speaking of coordinates, we can also place a solar park via specific coordinates by clicking on solar parks and new solar park from coordinates. Fill in your desired coordinates and hit Create.

You can delete a solar park by clicking on the marker and selecting Delete Park. When you're in the solar park settings, you can edit the 3D model assigned to your park by clicking on the tool symbol. Here you can change the module width, height, module capacity, and module count. You can set your color settings to Basic or custom for more control and change the colors of your panels.

Change border sizes and reflection intensity and spread. Under frame settings, we could change the frame type from south to east west. Change frame azimuth, leg count module tilt frame height array parts, deciding how many pieces an array can be divided in along the edges of a park, and array spacing.

If you want the panels to perfectly fit on the terrain, make sure to check the adapted terrain setting under the frame settings of your 3D model.

We can assist you with high quality terrain when necessary.

Of course, you can create multiple solar panel 3D models. Go to 3D models and click the plus icon. Dial in the settings we just covered.

And finally hit save 3D model.

To assign this new model to an existing park. Click the solar Park icon. Click edit and select the new model through the dropdown.

That's all for this lesson. We hope you now better understand the different tools with which you can place solar panels in EnergyPlanner.