SUNNY DESIGN

SUNNY DESIGN

Plant design made easy

With Sunny Design, designing PV plants is easier than ever. Simply enter all required information and within a few minutes you will receive the optimum configuration. The free software provides solar power professionals and plant designers with a user-friendly interface. The software provides data for an economic evaluation of the plant along with technical checking of the various components. The end customer gains a customized PV plant and the solar power professional saves valuable time.

Easy to Use

  • Optimum design for grid-tie PV plants
  • Provides information aimed at plant optimization
  • Free download


Comprehensive

  • Includes comprehensive database of all available PV modules
  • Use of high-resolution meteorological data
  • Supports locations worldwide
  • Automatic online updates
  • Generation of design proposals
  • Energy analysis for an operation period of one year
  Sunny Design
International  
Available languages Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
   
System requirements  
Supported operating systems Windows XP SP3*,
Windows Vista SP2*,
Windows 7*
   
Hardware (minimum requirements)  
Processor Intel Pentium 1 GHz
Main memory 1 GB RAM
Free hard disk space 100 MB
Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
Color depth 256 colors
   
* with .Net Framework 4.0  

Changes in Version 2.20

  • The Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) 2012 taken into account for plant designs in Germany. Optional use of the 70% limiting.
  • Generation of design proposals with several inverter types
  • Automatic plant design
  • Evaluation of design suggestions according to yield or profitability
  • Plant-specific calculation of the optimum nominal power ratio
  • Central display with design information
  • Possibility to compare design alternatives
  • Augmented project documentation and plant overview
  • Import of own consumption profiles and meteorological data
  • Option of activating/deactivating information dialogs
  • Extended setting options


Changes in Version 2.11

  • An error during the program start of Sunny Design (message "Input string was not in a correct format") has been corrected. This occurred under certain regional Windows settings.
  • A layout problem in the project documentation has been corrected.
  • The display of the information on VDE-AR-N 4105 has been improved.
  • The unit of degradation has been corrected in the module information.
  • During grid connection, switching from medium voltage to low voltage has been improved.
  • The documentation is now available in all supported languages.
  • 12 new locations in Japan, Australia and Oceania have been added.


Changes in Version 2.10

  • Component for determining the possible self-consumption of PV energy for home owners and commercial consumers
  • The German directive "Generating plants on the low-voltage grid" (VDE-AR-N 4105) is optionally taken into account when designing PV plants in Germany.
  • New navigation bar
  • Additional configuration options for the grid connection of the inverters, e.g. specified voltage tolerance and displacement power factor
  • Extension of the design suggestions by print function and help dialog
  • Project documentation with new layout and images of the inverters used
  • New inverters:
    • Sunny Boy 3300-11, Sunny Boy 3800-11,
    • Sunny Boy 3000/4000/5000TL-21
    • Sunny Mini Central 4600/5000/6000A-11
  • Numerous new countries and locations
  • Database update with new PV modules


Changes in version 2.01

  • The maximum number of strings per inverter input was increased from 999 to 5,000
  • In some languages the texts were modified in order to improve the layout of the application and project documentation
  • Issuing the project documentation does now also work for projects with very long PV array names
  • In the module data display the values are now shown correctly
  • Several problems were solved when adding a new PV module

Downloads

Language:
PC Software


51.854 KB

SUNNY DESIGN 2.20 - Komplettversion inklusive aller Standorte / complete package including all locations
Type: PC Software
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_2-20_Internet
Version number: 2.20


27.552 KB

Sunny Design 1.57 - Update ohne Wetterdaten / without Meteorological Data
Type: PC Software
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_Update_1-57
Version number: 1.57


53.248 KB

Sunny Design 1.57 - Software for easy design of a PV plants - including locations from Australia
Type: PC Software
Language: English (AU)
Document number: SDesign_1-57_AU
Version number: 1.57
Meteorological Data


6.201 KB

Wetterdaten Afrika Meteorological Data Africa Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Autmatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_Africa
Version number:


15.568 KB

Wetterdaten Nordamerika Meteorological Data North America Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Automatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_North_America


2.860 KB

Wetterdaten Südamerika Meteorological Data South America Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Automatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_South_America


26.483 KB

Wetterdaten Asien Meteorological Data Asia Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Autmatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_Asia
Version number:


5.827 KB

Wetterdaten Osteuropa Meteorological Data Eastern Europe Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Autmatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_Eastern_Europe
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13.094 KB

Wetterdaten Nordeuropa Meteorological Data Northern Europe Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Autmatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_Northern_Europe
Version number:


17.732 KB

Wetterdaten Westeuropa Meteorological Data Western Europe Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Autmatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_Western_Europe
Version number:


7.050 KB

Wetterdaten Südeuropa Meteorological Data Southern Europe Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Autmatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_Southern_Europe
Version number:


13.988 KB

Wetterdaten Ozeanien Meteorological Data Oceania Automatische Installation durch Öffnen der Datei / Automatical Installation by Opening the File
Type: Meteorological Data
Language: International
Document number: SDesign_Oceania