Utility-scale photo voltaic tasks are persistently breaking capability data yearly, each in particular person challenge dimension and total countrywide output. The sheer scale of those acres and typically miles lengthy arrays require an unprecedented quantity of worktime to assemble, and even earlier than a pile is pushed into the grime, challenge engineers should spend time designing these programs. PVcase, a software program as a service firm based by photo voltaic engineers, has for the final decade offered design companies for utility-scale photo voltaic challenge globally. David Trainavicius, founder and CEO of PVcase, is on this episode of Photo voltaic Highlight to debate how the platform helps photo voltaic builders automate processes and cut back work hours, and in the end cut back knowledge threat created as knowledge is shared throughout the handfuls of stakeholders and platforms concerned within the growth of a utility scale photo voltaic challenge. .
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SPW: What drawback does PVcase remedy within the photo voltaic market?
David Trainavicius, CEO of PVcase.
DT: Once you say drawback, I’d suppose perhaps a number of issues altogether. So, we’ve been seeing this for the previous 10 years now that there’s an absence of educated professionals within the business. Though, photo voltaic is changing into fairly a trendy and standard space to review after which begin work. However with the photo voltaic progress, globally, it’s simply nonetheless not sufficient. The second can be an absence of automation instruments. For my profession in photo voltaic, I used to be at all times pondering how engineering can change this business and the way automation can change this business, and the way we are able to transfer quicker, as a result of, No. 1, lack of expertise. So, I feel instruments can remedy that — barely. After which the third one can be all these instruments available in the market are so separated from one another. There’s nobody software that connects all of them, and I feel that’s the large problem that we’re making an attempt to unravel.
SPW: What’s PVcase and the way does it remedy the issues you simply described?
DT: We began this flagship product that may be a utility scale design software utilized by photo voltaic engineers, and we’ve been working with our shoppers to develop that product in a extremely detailed method previously 5, six years now. Now we’re altering {that a} bit and changing into a bit extra of a platform, the place we are able to begin with GIS (geographic data system) software first to seek out websites, choose websites after which transfer to the design course of.
SPW: Who do you promote to and what issues do you remedy for these shoppers?Â
The primary group can be builders which can be searching for websites to develop photo voltaic belongings on. So, they’re searching for appropriate websites, choosing them after which shifting to the engineering section. The second shopper base can be EPCs, our engineering, procurement and development firms, along with engineering consultants, that develops these utility scale energy crops.
SPW: How and when do you know PVcase was match to enter the market?
DT: After we began creating PVcase, it was on the consultancy I used to be working. Initially it was the design software for inner use. We used it for actual tasks globally. Then we bought so many requests from our shoppers asking what kind of software program options we had been utilizing, they usually requested to promote that resolution for them. So, it was the pure path to do a derivative from the consultancy. And this how PVcase was born.
This podcast is sponsored by PVcase
