Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Aktiengsellschaft

Karl-Heinz Kufer

Martin Bischoff

Oliver Hennig

Kai Plociennik

Ingmar Schule

Jens Weber

Frederik Brandes

A method for defining a structure of a photovoltaic system on a system surface with a local topology is provided, including: first placement of a block at a location on the system surface with the local topology; placing additional blocks at additional locations on the system surface without overlapping previously placed blocks, wherein prior to each placement, row spacing of the solar panels of each additional block is adapted to the topology at the location at which the respective additional block was placed, resulting in a change in the extension of the additional block in the direction of the column of solar panels of the additional block, and ending the placement of additional blocks if, by the placement of an additional block, the nominal capacity of a photovoltaic system corresponding to the structure were to be exceeded, or if no additional block can be placed without overlapping previously placed blocks.

Simplified construction of a photovoltaic system with a consecutively placed system block

A method for creating a physical layout of a photovoltaic system in a specified field is provided where the photovoltaic system is specified by a plurality of technical properties. The method includes reading out more than 20 pre-calculated, completed layouts for the photovoltaic system from a memory; presenting the completed layouts in a graphical presentation wherein each of the completed layouts is represented by at least one partial amount of the plurality of technical properties; modifying value ranges of the presented technical properties, in order to present a modified number of completed layouts in a comparable manner; and selecting an optimized layout that has been optimized with regard to the presented properties from the modified number of completed layouts. Thereby a photovoltaic system having a high nominal power can be established in the best possible manner. The physical layout of the entire photovoltaic system is adapted to the specified field.

Method for designing a physical layout of a photovoltaic system

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Weilerbach, Germany

Karl-Heinz Kufer