U.S. PVFARM Launches PV and Storage Optimization Platform Capable of Analyzing Thousands of Configurations

en.Wedoany.com Reported - U.S.-based PVFARM has announced the official release of its Re Pilot optimization platform. Designed for utility-scale photovoltaic plants and hybrid PV-plus-storage projects, the platform can analyze thousands of project configurations within a single workflow, evaluating the interdependencies among plant design, battery capacity, energy yield, grid constraints, and economic performance.

Re Pilot joins the company's suite of development tools for large-scale renewable projects, alongside the main PVFARM platform and Re Stack, which is designed for energy storage system design. Its goal is to move configuration decisions—traditionally made through independent tools, spreadsheets, and iterative loops among engineering, development, and construction teams—to the early stages of project development.

The platform enables developers, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors, storage integrators, and consultants to compare configurations for PV plants and PV-plus-storage projects in a single process. Parameters that can be analyzed include the DC/AC oversizing ratio (ILR), ground coverage ratio (GCR), row spacing, mounting systems, modules and inverters, battery sizing, and export power limits at the point of interconnection.

According to the developers, based on these variables, Re Pilot can search millions of potential combinations to identify configurations that achieve the optimal balance among levelized cost of energy (LCOE), energy yield, capital costs, and project economic value, while also assessing grid and interconnection point constraints.

PVFARM notes that one of the platform's primary applications is accelerating early-stage development decisions. In hybrid projects, decisions regarding battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, its layout within the plant, PV array arrangement, and exportable power capacity are closely interrelated—yet these factors are often evaluated separately, making it difficult to analyze their combined techno-economic consequences.

Selected configurations can then be transferred to Re Stack to generate BESS system designs, and subsequently into the PVFARM platform for multidisciplinary engineering and technical validation.