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FAQs
Find quick and short answers to frequent and not-so-frequently asked questions.
Location
- Where can you find the UTM zone? What about the time zone?
- What’s the max project radius? What if I need it to be more?
- What’s Google Earth’s topography resolution?
- How can I upload contour lines?
- What’s the maximum topography file size that I can upload?
- Can I upload shape files?
- How can I upload my own private meteorological data?
- What is the minimum historical temperature?
- How can I add an aerial image to the layout?
- What is the maximum size for a project?
Equipment
- What types of modules do you allow?
- Where can I upload my equipment?
- Where can I upload my trackers?
- How do I configure agriPV?
- In terms of energy calculation, what inverter power does the software use?
- Can I limit the inverter’s power? How?
- Why does my structure say that it’s only designed for “monofacial”?
- Which inputs will affect the recommended number of modules per string?
- Why can’t I increase the number of strings per structure?
- Can I combine different sizes of trackers together in the same design?
- Can I have a different type of structure in each area? If not, can you propose me an intermediary solution?
- What things does the “minimum ground clearance” affect?
- Is RatedPower considering a derating due to temperature & altitude at the inverter level?
- Why is the number of modules per string highlighted in orange?
- What does the service type mean? Does it change anything?
- How do I set my power station transformer’s capacity?
- What transformer manufacturers do you work with or have in your database?
- I need to use specific skid station sizes. How can I do so?
- What’s the ridge distance?
- How’s the default tilt angle calculated?
- What does a 2V structure mean?
- Is backtracking enabled?
- How to change the MPPT configuration in RatedPower?
- How can I ensure the minimum ground clearance is respected?
Layout
- Why do I have red structures in my layout? How can I change that?
- How can I set the total number of inverters?
- I put 30 MWac in “Specific capacity” but only got 18 MWac in my design. Why?
- It seems that RatedPower is calculating the AC capacity wrong. If you multiply the number of inverters by the capacity of one, it should be different.
- Where can I limit how much energy my plant’s providing to the grid?
- Pitch distance vs clearance distance?
- What is the GCR?
- Where does the recommended pitch come from?
- What is the minimum post depth I can define? What does the minimum ground clearance represent?
- Can I set a 0 m distance from the structures to the fence?
- Can I have both vertical + horizontal roads in the same area?
- How does RatedPower places the roads?
- The no-roads option is disabled although my site is smaller than 5ha, why?
- I can’t use border adaptation, why?
- Power station inside vs outside DC field? Which one’s better for a higher capacity? Why?
- How does the software decide where to place the inverters and power stations?
- Is the power station’s height considered in the energy yield calculation?
- How can I change the distance from structures to RA?
- Why is my layout rotated in the “General Layout” file?
- How does the software determine the distance between the roads of a layout?
- How can I define the width of the fence?
Topography
- What’s the resolution of the arrows shown in the topography?
- I enabled some topography restrictions, but nothing happened after I simulated the design.
- What’s undulation tolerance?
- What’s the difference between the “linked row limit” and the rest of the slope limits?
- Do you calculate the cut&fill volumes? Where can I find them?
Grid point
- How can I get the interconnection facility SLD in US-based symbology?
- What does the “MV line max current” affect?
- Why can’t I see the overhead line (OHL) options?
- Why can’t I use the switching and breaking station?
- Can I have a buried HV line?
- How can I have a bigger substation’s transformer size than what the dropdown list shows?
- The copper loss (1%) is proportional to the square of the load factor, what do you mean by that?
Electrical
- What’s the difference between axial vs pitch grouping?
- How does the “Maximum strings per box” parameter work?
- How can I set one consistent number of strings/inverter in the whole design?
- What’s a harness? Why can’t I select the harness option?
- What criteria do the cabling standards follow?
- What is the difference between a single-core and multi-core cable?
- What does the maximum number of cross-sections mean?
- What does the maximum number of circuits per polarity mean?
- Up to what temperature can XLPE withstand?
- What type of installation do you apply to each subsystem (outside, buried in trenches, in ducts, etc...)?
- Which temperature is used for the cable sizing?
- Does RatedPower use leapfrog or daisy chain for the string configuration? Can I choose?
- How can I define the minimum number of strings per box?
- What depth and width values are being considered for trenches?
BESS
Energy
- Do you calculate P-99?
- Do you have monthly or yearly soiling losses?
- Can I define my own albedo profile?
- What options do you have for the horizon?
- What’s the difference between far shading, near shading, and array shading?
- What do the PV plant and grid availabilities mean?
- What does the “years of simulation” parameter affect?
- How are the cabling losses calculated?
- How to increase the bifacial gain (energy produced by the module’s back face)?
- What is the difference between LID and first year degradation, and what values should I use?
- Do the Energy Yield Results include nighttime losses?