On-Demand Webinars
Browse our collection of webinars presented by Terabase Energy’s PlantPredict team covering feature releases, solar development best practices, and educational deep dives into specific topics.
November 20, 2024
Take the Guesswork out of Earthwork in PlantPredict
CAD Solutions for Accurate Grading Analyses
Discover how to master complex terrain challenges with Terabase PlantPredict’s revolutionary new grading analysis feature. Learn how to create precise terrain-following tracker profiles using your custom topography data and array layouts.
Join us as we welcome a guest civil engineer from KW Renewable Engineering, who will demonstrate how this powerful tool has streamlined their site design workflow and helped their client de-risk projects earlier and faster.
Key Takeaways:
- How to perform earthwork analyses with your own topographic data and array layout using PlantPredict's Terrain Pro.
- The difference between compatible CAD tools and format.
- How to run earthwork analyses with array layouts from your tracker supplier.
- How civil engineers are using these tools to de-risk projects.
- How you can get started immediately.
September 25, 2024
3D Performance Modeling Made Easy
Introducing PlantPredict v12
Take a tour of the latest features in PlantPredict v12, including a deep dive into site-level, 3D shade modeling on complex terrain.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn how to create 3D racking geometry on complex terrain using terrain-following trackers.
- Understand how to import 3D system designs into PlantPredict for shade modeling.
- See how 3D racking and associated shading can be visualized in PlantPredict.
- Learn how to connect/disconnect the shade model to the energy prediction.
- Get an in-depth description of the technical approaches PlantPredict uses to calculate 3D shading.
- Learn about other new features and important bug fixes in version 12.
August 28, 2024
Beyond the 2% default
Introducing PVRADAR soiling loss integration in PlantPredict
A deep dive into PVRADAR’s physical soiling model, underlying datasets, and integration within PlantPredict.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn how to access site-specific, monthly soiling loss data for free within PlantPredict.
- Gain an understanding of the primary factors that drive soiling losses on large-scale solar farms.
- Get an in-depth description of PVRADAR’s physical soiling model and the historical datasets used by it.
- Hear from PVRADAR regarding model accuracy and validation efforts.
- Learn how you can improve your project’s value and reduce soiling losses with a cost-optimal cleaning strategy.
April 23, 2024
Enhancing Preliminary Environmental Assessments for Large-Scale Solar Development with PlantPredict & Transect
Mitigate project risks & understand true solar capacity
Learn about the importance of early environmental assessments during the preliminary stages of large-scale solar development to better understand your project site’s true buildable area and solar capacity.
The webinar also demonstrates how PlantPredict’s integration with Transect enables one-click environmental reports for your selected land parcels.
Key Takeaways:
- How issues missed at the beginning could be fatal flaws later on.
- Why your early estimates of usable land may be incorrect.
- Most common types of regulations and permitting issues.
- How to generate on-demand environmental due diligence reports in minutes.
- How Terabase PlantPredict & Transect can save you time and money finding more suitable solar development opportunities.
December 5, 2023
PV power plant site analysis with GCR/capacity visualizations in PlantPredict
Target the designs you want with pinpoint accuracy by visualizing all DC/AC capacity and GCR combinations in a single view in PlantPredict
Learn how to use PlantPredict Design Pro’s newest GCR/capacity visualization feature to improve design workflow efficiency for large-scale solar power plants.
This demo includes a full walkthrough of the latest and improved Design Pro workflow, getting you to the sweet spot for your targeted capacities and layouts in fewer iterations than ever before.
Key Takeaways:
- How to use the latest GCR/capacity visualization tool to specify scenarios to analyze.
- The new workflow to batch multiple scenarios to run in parallel.
- How GCR and DC:AC ratio affect the EPC costs of a project and how that impacts the overall LCOE.
- The value of fast-tracking preliminary design decisions.
October 19, 2023
Introducing PlantPredict’s Terrain Pro
A Modern Approach to Earthwork Analysis for Large-Scale Solar
See an an in-depth demonstration of Terrain Pro, the newest addition to the PlantPredict Pro suite of tools.
The demo will cover designing layouts with alternate racking systems, quickly analyzing the terrain, and calculating earthwork quantities to understand the economic impact to your project.
Key Takeaways:
- Why performing earthwork assessments early and often improves decision making.
- How Terrain Pro can reduce time compared to traditional civil engineering methods.
- How to compare alternate racking systems.
- Thorough explanation of inputs and outputs when using Terrain Pro.
- How Terrain Pro is integrated with other PlantPredict Pro tools.
August 30, 2023
Earthwork assessment fundamentals & challenges
A modern approach to terrain analysis for GFT, standard trackers, and terrain-following trackers.
An overview of traditional earthwork assessment methods for large-scale solar plants and how they can be streamlined using modern software modeling and automation techniques.
In addition to to civil engineering concepts, the webinar also explores different approaches to analyzing fixed-tilt and tracking systems, including terrain-following tracking systems.
Key Takeaways:
- How earthwork assessments are traditionally performed.
- Typical terrain data sources, formats, accuracies and resolutions.
- Basic civil engineering earthwork concepts.
- The effect of terrain following trackers on grading.
March 10, 2023
Maximize string size on your utility-scale PV plant with PlantPredict's Voltage Pro
Terabase Energy demonstrates Voltage Pro (part of the PlantPredict Pro suite of tools), developed to support designers and engineers in determining the maximum string length when designing large scale solar power plants.
Our special guest from Clean Power Research will also describe how a high-resolution temperature deviation dataset was created to characterize accuracy of satellite-derived temperature data as compared to ASHRAE ground station temperature data.
Key Takeaways:
- How to use Voltage Pro to determine the maximum string length possible for a specific project location using site specific weather data and safety factors.
- How safety factors are automatically calculated for your site and applied to the results.
- How SolarAnywhere has taken the guesswork out of computing temperature-related safety factors when using SolarAnywhere datasets.
- How Voltage Pro complies with applicable codes and standards (NEC and IEC).
- How to automatically generate a string size calculation report.
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