PDF reports
To generate a PDF report in Solesca, click the export button in the upper-right, then "Report". This will open up a dialogue box to prompt you to download the "Design Report". Keep that selected to download this PDF design report. The PDF report contains your company's logo and the design name, a high-resolution rendering of the site, and both summary data and specific data about the design. You'll have the option to set the image rendering settings before generating the PDF (see PNG).
First page
On the first page, you will see the "Project summary" section, which includes the design's address and location. In the "Result summary" section, you'll get high-level metrics of the design, including DC & AC nameplate power, energy production, specific yield, and shade losses. Below this, you'll see graphs for energy production and sources of system loss.
Second page
On the second page, you'll see the "Main results" table, which is comparable to the same table in PVsyst. This contains monthly data on irradiance, temperature plane-of-array irradiance, DC & AC energy, and performance ratio. Below this, in the "General parameters" section, you'll see which weatherfile was used for the simulation.
Probability evaluation exists at the bottom of the second page. Here, you'll see the project's P90, P95, and P99 values for both annual production and specific yeild. The values assume a gaussian (normal) distribution and have variance calculated based on the Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) values for the site.
For a detailed explanation of the probability and variance calculation methodology, please refer to the following publication: https://www.cuepe.ch/html/biblio/pdf/Ineichen_2011-global_irradiance_typical_year_and_annual_variability(swc).pdf (opens in a new tab).
Third Page
On the third page, you'll see the "Array composition" section. This contains wiring zones of fields and which fields were assigned to which arrays. These are described in detial in the rest of the report. In Solesca, an array is defined by fields that have the same inspector data, e.g. same module, inverter, tilt, etc. Module and inverter count will be summed for arrays that comprise more than one field.
Fourth page, fifth page and on
The third and fourth pages, which will repeat every two pages for each array, contain array-level information, including the layout settins, information about the module & inverter that was used, and applied simulation settings and losses, including shade losses (the last table on the fourth page). Note that this may actually start after the third page if the "Array composition" page from the Page 2 is especially long.