Software for the renewable energy development
Software for the renewable energy development
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I came across an interesting piece of software the other day called Ecotect by Square One (http://squ1.com/).
It appears, on preliminary review, to provide some good tools to predict sun shadowing and annual solar energy on a surface, which is of particular interest for solar power plant design. And, before you shout me down for spruiking software, the industry I work in.
If anyone knows of other renewable energy specific software packages maybe we can get some honest appraisals here?
Rich
It appears, on preliminary review, to provide some good tools to predict sun shadowing and annual solar energy on a surface, which is of particular interest for solar power plant design. And, before you shout me down for spruiking software, the industry I work in.
If anyone knows of other renewable energy specific software packages maybe we can get some honest appraisals here?
Rich





RE: Software for the renewable energy development
http://www.retscreen.net/ang/home.php
It has a really broad range of technologies for almost any renewable energy, and a decent weather database. I also really like the financial side of it. I'm not always sure that the numbers that they use as a base are realistic though, and I don't think it does hourly analysis.
RE: Software for the renewable energy development
You might be interested in RADIANCE also.
Cheers
RE: Software for the renewable energy development