Fast and comparable
Monthly resource model with PVWatts v8 benchmarks, aggregate loss assumptions, and a provenance-labelled resource confidence. Built to rank surfaces and buildings quickly.
Screening in detail →Product
Detailed engineering, where the inputs warrant it
For the surfaces that justify deeper modelling, SolaMaxa runs a dedicated detailed PV engine: hourly resource modelling, anisotropic sky irradiance, an explicit component loss waterfall, and a calculation workpaper behind every material result. It raises fidelity — it never silently overwrites screening.
Two tiers, clearly separate
Screening and detailed analysis never blur
Every analysis run carries a stated fidelity. Screening results are never re-routed through the detailed engine — and detailed results are never presented as screening.
Explicit, staged physics
Hourly (or sub-hourly) resource, anisotropic sky diffuse irradiance, a sequential component loss waterfall, and deterministic modelled uncertainty ranges — every default visible and versioned.
Fidelity is stated per run: screening → detailed (estimated) → detailed (validated inputs).What the detailed engine models
The physics, stated explicitly
Resource & irradiance
Hourly (or sub-hourly) GHI/DNI/DHI from imported, provenance-tracked weather sources; beam, sky-diffuse and ground-reflected components via an anisotropic sky model; angle-of-incidence effects from documented product data.
Shading, geometry-aware
Time-step shading from the same geometry engine the platform screens with — direct-beam obstruction from canonical geometry, at surface, zone or array resolution.
Temperature & mounting
Cell temperature from established models with mounting classes that reflect how BIPV actually runs — warmer façade classes are visible, not hidden.
An explicit loss waterfall
Shading, reflection, temperature, soiling, mismatch, wiring, inverter conversion and availability applied sequentially — each step records its basis and source. Nothing is bundled into one opaque "system loss".
Semi-transparent & coloured BIPV
Gross glass area, active PV coverage and rated power flow through unchanged; cell efficiency is never inferred from light transmission — manufacturer rated data governs.
Modelled uncertainty
Deterministic modelled ranges over eight documented components — explicitly ranges, not probability statements. Every assumption carries a source and a confidence label.
A readiness gate, not a shrug
Missing inputs are reported, never invented
Before a detailed run, a deterministic readiness check reports exactly which inputs are present, which are defaulted and which are missing — across geometry, solar resource, products, thermal, electrical, shading and system architecture. Defaults come from a versioned register you can inspect; overrides carry a reason.
Stated plainly
What detailed analysis does not do
- It does not replace final professional electrical, façade, structural, fire or compliance design.
- It does not claim measured or calibrated fidelity unless measured data and calibration are actually supplied.
- It does not present modelled ranges as probabilistic P50/P90 statements.
- It does not silently interpolate: any resource-data adjustment is recorded in the run.
See it on a building you know
Stress-test the detailed engine on a real envelope.
Bring a façade or roof that matters. We'll show the readiness gate, the loss waterfall and the workpaper behind the results.
SolaMaxa is pre-beta. We are currently selecting the first architectural, BIPV, engineering and property teams.