Onboarding guide

In this document

We will introduce you to Solargis Evaluate 2.0, a powerful tool for designing and evaluating photovoltaic (PV) energy systems. You will learn the key steps to create, simulate, and analyze your PV system using the Evaluate application. For more information, please follow the links provided throughout the document.

Navigating the dashboard

Navigate to https://apps-pilot.solargis.com/home/dashboard and log in - you will be presented with your account dashboard (Home).

The first thing you must do is select the company in the upper right corner. This will ensure you have access to the correct projects and applications.

Once there, start Evaluate by clicking the Evaluate button.

Creating your projects

You can start a new project directly from the Evaluate projects page.

Please consider the temporal resolution and data coverage map when selecting your site. Calculations in the next step might freeze if you select a site outside of the coverage area.

Activate project to get Solargis data

The project does not contain any data upon creation. You must activate it to get Solargis data for your site. The label next to its name indicates the current stage of your project (Not activated).

Solargis Evaluate Database

The project activation selector offers two sets of data for the due diligence and feasibility stage of your projects:

Typical Meteorological Year TMY50 (Early stage)
Solargis Time Series (Full Evaluation)

The Full evaluation also contains TMY50 data. Make a selection and click the “Activate” button to activate your project.

The details are highlighted in bold. Please take into consideration that in the pre-launch testing, the following features are not available:

Importing 3rd-party meteo & solar data
Solargis Standard Reports
Button to request Solargis Consultancy services from the application
Button to request TMY Px from the application

Activating a project will deduct credits from your purchased allowance.

Creating your energy system

We are introducing an Energy System concept to combine datasets with PV Configuration that can be simulated. You will be asked to select the type of dataset and design the power plant, which will be later used as input for the PVOUT simulation.

Our Evaluate application offers an advanced PV Configurator to design your power plant and configure parameters for Global tired irradiation (GTI). This section is available in the Project category. You can create two types of energy systems:

GTI energy system - serves to simulate GTI
PV energy system - serves to design your PV energy system using available terrain models. It is an advanced energy system with custom parameters and from-the-market components.

Explore the related documentation and decide which energy system is more suitable for your current scenario.

Simulating your energy system

Every energy system needs to be simulated first before you can read its analysis, create reports, or download data. The simulation uses our advanced PV Simulator, taking into account solar, environmental, and meteorological data related to the PV system’s location.

Analyzing your project data, creating reports, and data exports

Once the simulation is finished, you can examine the generated project data, produce reports, and export simulation data for further processing.

The data are presented in numerous charts and tables to help you visualize the energy production during different seasons throughout the years in the time series.

Additionally, you can explore the PV energy system’s statistics and losses and see how it may perform during its lifespan based on the simulation data.

More information, useful tips, and questions are included in our FAQs.