• New Feature: High temperature heat pumps can be simulated using profiles
• Software maintenance: Update of weather data to Meteonorm 8 (offline) and Meteonorm 9 (webservice)
• Optimization: Improved calculation of plate heat exchanger component
• Optimization: Improved building degree-hour heating load and heating energy demand model
• Optimization: Improved graphical evaluation
• Optimization: Changed property limits in waste water heat exchanger
• GUI Optimization: Global wizard is substituted by individual component wizard
• Standard templates: New templates with high temperature heat pumps added
• Catalog data: New air-water heat pumps added
• Catalog data: Updated solar collector catalog
• Catalog data: Updated photovoltaic and inverter catalogs
• Bugfix: Failing to simulate old programmable data logger fixed
• Bugfix: Failing to load user defined heat pump profile from another installation fixed
• Optimization: Large projects require about 20% less RAM and cause lower CPU utilization during simulations because of more effective in-memory representation of result data

• Bug fix: Issues with report generation resolved
• Bug fix: Proxy handling for user-based licensing system improved

• New Feature: Air-to-water heat pump can now be used for cooling
• Optimization: Improved calculation of component internal volumes
• Optimization: Warning message for excessive collector temperatures
• Optimization: Refined numerical calculation of coil heat exchanger temperature
• Optimization: Reduced computational load for borehole component
• Software maintenance: Results windows laid out more clearly
• Software maintenance: Multiple selection enabled in results windows
• Software maintenance: Memory management optimized
• Software maintenance: Improved sizing of catalog windows
• Standard templates: New templates for cooling applications with air-to-water heat pumps
• Catalog data: New catalog featuring air-to-water heat pumps for cooling applications
• Catalog data: Updated PV module and inverter catalogs
• Catalog data: Updated collector catalog
• Bug fix: Display error in the toolbar resolved

• Software maintenance: New, user-based license system
• Software maintenance: Installer revised
• Software maintenance: Component toolbar further revised
• Catalog data: New heat pumps added
• Standard templates: New templates added and existing ones updated
• Bug fix: Inconsistency in the number of possible MPP trackers in the inverter catalog fixed

• Bugfix: Calculation of thermal resistance of heat pumps revised

• Optimization: Improved accuracy of heat flow meter
• Optimization: Revised solar thermal energy calculation model
• Optimization: Adjusted thermal resistance of heat pumps
• Optimization: Buildings can be defined in the degree-hour model via heating load and heating energy demand
• Software maintenance: Made the “System diagram” and “Results” menus more convenient
• Software maintenance: Component toolbar revised
• Standard templates: New templates for cooling applications added
• Standard templates: Some templates revised
• Catalog data: New heat pumps added
• Catalog data: Automatic synchronization with Solar Keymark database
• Catalog data: New PVT collectors added
• Catalog data: PV module catalog updated

• Performance optimisation: Building model
• New templates: Peak shaving
• New templates: Waste heat recovery for data centres
• Catalogue data: New Combined Heat and Power Units

• Optimization: GeoCollect component revised
• Optimization: “Catalogs” menu made more user-friendly
• Software maintenance: Various performance optimizations
• Software maintenance: Texts, translations, and tooltips optimized
• Software maintenance: Wizard expiry notice adjusted
• Standard templates: Some templates revised; outdated templates hidden
• Catalog data: Various enhancements and adjustments
• Fix: Incorrect behavior in the “Horizon Editor” dialog box fixed

• Software maintenance: OpenStreetMaps retrieval switched to https
• Software maintenance: Wizard made available again

• Optimization: Improvement of the search function in the template navigator
• Optimization: Visual revisions in the template navigator

• New feature: Template navigator for selecting suitable templates
• New component: GeoCollect earth tank available
• Standard templates: Templates with GeoCollect earth tank added
• Standard templates: Expansion of heat pump templates
• Standard templates: More than 60 new templates available
• Optimization: Display of energy deficit in variant comparison
• Optimization: Automatic selection of solver
• Optimization: Adaptation of building symbols to use cases
• Software maintenance: Outdated report formats removed
• Catalogue data: Expansion and update of PVT and collector catalogue
• Catalogue data: Revision of some parameters for insulation material and building loads
• Catalogue data: Update of the PV module catalogue
• Catalogue data: Update of Sunerg devices
• Catalogue data: Expansion of various catalogues

• Bugfix: Conversion of solar thermal catalog data revised

• Software maintenance: Solar thermal simulation updated to current collector standard
• Optimization: Addition of recooling power to the component results for heat-driven chillers
• Optimization: Extended results for borehole component and groundwater loop
• Optimization: Pipe lengths checked for plausibility
• Optimization: Alphabetical order of results
• Optimization: Improved algorithm for calculating the maximum heating demand in the degree-hour model
• Catalog data: Collector and PVT database converted to new collector standard
• Catalog data: Extension and update of the collector catalog

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• New component: Waste water heat exchanger now available in Polysun
• Optimization: Thermal resistance and internal volume of heat pump adjusted
• Optimization: Default solver changed to “enhanced”
• Standard templates: Templates with waste water heat exchanger added
• Catalog data: Update of the PV database
• Catalog data: New cooling elements added
• Catalog data: Some Viessmann heat pumps enhanced with high temperature range
• Software maintenance: Results concerning expired subsidy programs removed

• Bugfix: Missing values in graphical simulation analysis fixed
• Bugfix: Display of tabular results – time-step-values fixed

• Bugfix: Fixed simulation analysis not working in some cases

• Optimization: More accurate interpretation of use cases with Energy Sink/Source Component
• Optimization: Algorithm for the plate heat exchanger improved
• Optimization: More consistent calculation of energy balances
• Optimization: RAM requirements reduced and utilisation improved
• Optimization: Improved handling of simulation results saves simulation time
• Standard templates: Templates with sink-source component revised
• Standard templates: Various templates updated
• Company templates: New Smart Energy Engineering templates added
• Profile updates: New profiles for weather and hot water demand with focus on USA.
• Catalogue data: Update of the PV database
• Catalogue data: Update of solar collectors
• Bugfix: Storage of manually entered costs in profitability calculation fixed
• Bugfix: Incorrect warning messages resolved

• Catalog data: Double assignment of catalog-IDs corrected

• New feature: Adjustable gain calculation coefficient in degree hours cooling model
• Optimization: Adjustment of memory utilisation after RAM upgrade
• Optimization: Improved port and proxy handling of the activation wizard
• Optimization: Reduced memory usage for geothermal probe profiles
• Optimization: Improved memory handling when closing projects
• Standard templates: Templates revised and new ones added
• Company templates: B-Solartec folder added
• Catalog data: New heat pumps added
• Bugfix: Difficulties with some character sets in file names and profiles fixed
• Bugfix: Calculation of the inverter cut off corrected

• Optimization: Simulation times with a programmable controller
• Optimization: Energy sink/source
• Optimization: Integration of PV panels from Polysun SPT
• Standard templates: New multi-family house templates
• Standard templates: New cooling system templates
• Optimization: Energy deficit is displayed for the quasi-dynamic model

• New feature: Cooling implemented in comprehensive building model
• Optimization: GUI cleaned
• Optimization: More precise values possible for mutual shading
• Standard templates: Cooling templates cleaned

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• Optimization: License management adjusted

• Optimization: Display of total energy consumption (Quse) in all building models
• Fix: Calculation of the annual cumulative damage in batteries corrected
• Standard templates: Manufacturer-specific templates revised and expanded
• Catalog updates: Additional heat pumps added
• Catalog updates: PVT components revised and expanded
• Catalog updates: PV catalog updated

• Feature: New online user manual available in Polysun
• Catalog updates: More heat pumps added