PDF reports
To generate a BESS PDF report in Solesca, click the export button in the upper-right, then "PDF." A toggle will show that allows you to generate a solar or battery report, select the "BESS + Solar" toggle. 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. Battery losses are included within the pie chart. 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. Battery losses effect the performance ratio of the design, and the monthly and annual performance ratios here have been modified to account for battery system losses. 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 +
For every battery you have added to a wiring zone, there will be a unique page showing how that battery interacted with the specific wiring zone's solar. The first section contains information about the battery system such as the manufacturer and model number, battery-specific export, battery units, unit and total power and capacity, coupling type, and necessary grid information.
Below the detailed description lies the annual profile of the array. On the Y axis you have the energy export and on the X axis the hours of the day. This is an average day taken by averaging all days at the same hour for the entire first year. You can see what the system would produce by solar alone and how the battery has taken the solar production and shifted it to different hours in the day.
The main results table shows how much energy the battery is taking from the system and the grid and then exporting to the grid on a monthly and annual basis.
Subsequent page after batteries
On the page after battery information, 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.
Pages after "Array composition"
The page after array composition information, 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.