Polysun 2023.3 – Release Notes – 8. Feb 2023
- Newly added scaling factor in the heat pump and B/W or W/W heat pump components enables easy re-sizing and cascading of heat pumps
Polysun 2023.2 – Release Notes – 1. Feb 2023
- Further components added to the database, e.g. from DualSun, Tesvolt AG, Hydro-Solar Water Engineering AG and Sunmaxx PVT GmbH
Polysun 2022.8 – Release Notes – 10. Oct 2022
- Added heat pumps from the manufacturers Vaillant, Ochsner and Arctic Heat Pumps to the database
- Fixed a bug that prevented the selected PV production profile from remaining selected when copying variants and saving projects
Polysun 2022.5 – Release Notes – 14. Apr 2022
- Standard templates 56c, 56b, 56f, 52a-52f renewed
- Nominal battery capacity is now displayed in comparison report
- Reliability of match rate function increased
- Database adjustments for several storage tanks
- Solar thermal collector database extended
- Database extended with further anonymous air-to-water heat pumps
- More inverters added to the database
Polysun 2022.4 – Release Notes – 2. Feb 2022
- Improve Polysun update process
- Smaller bugfixes
Polysun 2022.3 – Release Notes – 24. Jan 2022
- Bugfixes related to the Polysun update process
- Problem solved that font size in Polysun changes during use
Polysun 2022.2 – Release Notes – 21. Jan 2022
- Extension of the database with further components, e.g., PV modules from 3S Solar Plus and heat pumps from Vaillant with cooling function
- Improved graphical evaluation – time step values are now computed and displayed directly for the entire simulation period
- Importing electrical profiles simplified – the resolution no longer has to be specified in the catalog entry
- Electrical consumption of thermal components is now included in the total electricity consumption by default
- New context menu available in the catalog for simplified editing of catalog entries
- Refined calculation method of the building temperature in the “hourly energy demand” model
- Bug fixed on MacOS that prevented selecting the location from the map
Polysun 2022.1 – Release Notes – 4. Jan 2022
- Database extended with heat pumps
- Bug fixed related to unit auto-scaling
Polysun 2021.16 – Release Notes – 16. Dec 2021
- The Log4j framework has been removed from Polysun
Polysun 2021.15 – Release Notes – 15. Dec 2021
- Update of the Log4j framework to version 2.15 to address security issues related to the framework
Polysun 2021.14 – Release Notes – 7. Dec 2021
- Polysun offers the possibility to generate a Minergie report, which can be used in the Minergie certification process in Switzerland
- In systems with high energy and power values, units are scaled appropriately in the result sections
- Entries for good, average and poor battery systems have been included in the database
- New component data, such as batteries of Ecocoach AG, have been added to the database
Polysun 2021.13 – Release Notes – 5. Nov 2021
- Additional storage tanks from Meier Tobler have been added to the database
- Auxiliary variables and status of the programmable controller can now be used in the graphical evaluation
- Bug has been fixed that prevented hot water profiles of type “hot water flow rate (l/h)” from being used
- Match rate function has been adjusted
Polysun 2021.12 – Release Notes – 21. Sep 2021
- The CO2 emissions of the system are now displayed and replace the indication of saved CO2 emissions
- Extension of the database with further entries for PVT collectors
- Fixing the functions “Import EnEV data” and “Import SIA 380/1 building simulation data” in the building component
- Fluids can now be reliably adjusted individually in fluid circuits
Polysun 12.1.1 – Release Notes – 7. Jul 2021
- Polysun BIM can now be used to automatically import thermal load profiles with user-defined units.
- Extension of our manufacturer database with batteries
- Fix of a database problem which could hinder updating Polysun
Polysun 12.0 – Release Notes – 4. Nov 2020
- Release of Polysun BIM add-on (automatic data import and KPM)
- High quality vector graphics for all system templates
- Revision of the energy sink and source
- Latest weather data (Meteonorm 8) available via web service
- Extensive database updates
- New company templates
Polysun 11.3 – Release Notes – 12. Mar 2020
- Optimized graphical user interface with new features
- Background simulation of systems while other system diagrams are edited
- Pausing of simulations
- New Solar Keymark collectors
- Many new components (heat pumps, PV modules, cogeneration units etc.)
Polysun 11.2 – Release Notes – 9. Oct 19
New features and updates
- Numerous database updates
- New company templates
- Template search field
- New update mechanism
- Import and export of user-defined catalog entries (from individual catalogs and from the main menu)
- All Polysun licenses now have read-access to all components saved in a project file
- Revamped Polysun activation wizard (previously called ‘license manager’) for better user-friendliness and improved handling of errors
- Ability to manually activate Polysun offline by selecting a license file
Polysun 11.1 – Release Notes – 22. May 19
New features and updates
- Network licenses for Windows
- 64-bit version for Windows
- Optimized installation on Mac OS operating systems
- Protection against data loss through automatic backup copies
- Copy and paste of individual components for faster creation of new variants
- Dark mode facilitates concentrated work and is easy on the eyes
- Battery model completely converted to PerMod
- All battery inverters are parameterised according to efficiency guidelines
- SVG export of graphics
- Numerous new system templates
- New catalogues and database updates (Photovoltaikforum, Solar Keymark and SPF database)
- Import of variants from other projects (Premium only)
Polysun 11.0 – Release Notes – 3. Oct 18
New features and updates
- Usability
- New color codes
- Improved display of the diagrams
- New interfaces
- PerModAC battery model
- Revised Log & Parametrize
- Heat meter
- Programmable data logger
- PV generation profiles can be pre-defined
- Negative load profiles
- Variable weather data
- Meteonorm weather data in one-minute-time steps
- Connection of programmable controllers
- Calculation priorities can be set
- Operating modes can be overwritten
- Auxiliary variables of the programmable controller can be set as inputs from other controllers/sensors
- New ice storage tank model
- Bi-directional electric vehicle
- Revised energy flow diagrams
Polysun 10.2 – Release Notes – 21. Feb 18
New features and updates
- Customizable tool-bar
- Easy selection of several elements, to shift and align them on the design area
- New catalogues and database updates (Photovoltaikforum, Solar Keymark and SPF databases)
Polysun 10.1 – Release Notes – 21. Nov 17
New features and updates
- Easy comparison of simulation results of several system diagrams
- Possibility of exporting results in .csv
- Enhanced tabular evaluation in hourly, 15 min. or time-step values, enabling an easy data export
- Great improvements of the profitability calculation:
- Easy comparison of several system diagrams
- Annual values
- Payback period of PV systems compared to a reference system without solar
- Various improvements regarding display and reports
- New cooling templates
- Updated weather profiles (Metenorm 7.2, more than worldwide 8’300 weather stations)
- New catalogues and database updates (Photovoltaikforum, Solar Keymark and SPF databases)
Polysun 10.0 – Release Notes – 15. Jun 17
Neue Features und Updates
- New component: electric vehicles (car, bicycle etc.) with dialogue window for driving profiles
- Advanced result analysis and new templates for integrated energy systems
- Plug-in controller for the optimization of controlling strategies (Matlab, Python, Java)
- New component: cooling water recooler for heat pump systems
- Interface with the thermohydraulic dimensioning tool THD
- New catalogues and database updates
Polysun 9.2 – Release Notes – 7. Feb 17
New features and updates
- Hydronic templates for process heat applications
- Wide-ranging enhancements and examples for anergy grids
- Import of hourly values for heating and cooling energy demand
- Import of building load data according to SIA/EnEV (for example using the tools Lesosai, ZUB Helena, etc.)
- New selection of battery storage devices in the Wizard
- Forecast-based operating strategy for PV storage systems
- New catalogues and database updates
Polysun 9.1 – Release Notes – 3. Nov 16
New Features
Profitability Calculation:
- Cost and economic lifetime of components taken into account
- High and low tariffs considered
- Dynamic power profiles can be fed in
- Instant calculation of results
- Combination of electric and thermal systems possible
- Automatic calculation of the net present value, the time of amortization and the absolute profit as well as other key figures
- Presentation of results possible in a short or a professional report
- Supports all current office software formats
- Country-specific subsidies such as EEG (Germany) and KEV (Switzerland) are considered
New catalogues and database updates
- 145 new photovoltaic modules (from all over the world)
- 454 new inverters
- 99 solar thermal collectors from the Solar Keymark and SPF database
- 45 new tanks and 89 new heat pumps
Polysun 9.0 – Release Notes – 29. Jun 16
New Features
- Catalogs for batteries, PV modules and inverters are retrieved from the Cloud and are updated just-in-time
- Controller optimizing with detailed, graphic analysis
- Cooling energy demand can be entered into the building model
- eTank – new simulation model for geothermal storage tanks
- New systems for cross-sector use of energy (e-Mobility, Power to Heat, etc.),
- User manual completely revised and updated
- Improved performance and better graphic user interface
- 478 new photovoltaic modules (from all over the world)
- 105 new inverters
- 224 solar thermal collectors from the Solar Keymark and SPF database
- 21 new tanks and 37 new heat pumps
Polysun 8.2 – Release Notes – 25. Feb 16
New features and updates
- Automatic sensitivity studies and multiple simulations
- New templates allowing for easier comparisons between conventional and renewable energy systems
- Simulation of bifacial modules
- New catalogues and database updates
Polysun 8.1 – Release Notes – 15. Oct 15
New Features
- New templates for solar house systems
- Power-to-Heat templates
- Hybrid collector templates
- Storage of user-created templates on Designer
- Street lighting templates (off-grid systems)
- New assortment of standard schemes
- Password function for components
- DC networks
- Consumption profiles for heat pumps
- Revised pool model
- Revised building model
New catalogues and database updates
- 137,036 PV modules (69,638 current and 67,398 historical modules)
- 1,283 inverters
- 5 new batteries
- 175 new solar thermal collectors (Solar Keymark)
- 23 new heat pumps
- New templates for Viessmann, Solvis, Thermic Energy, Solarbayer and many others
Polysun 8.0 – Release Notes – 8. Jun 15
New Features
- Expanded battery catalogue including lithium-ion batteries
- Power failures (blackouts): simulation of power failures enabled
- Input of power price profiles
- Input of power source profiles (wind power, hydropower)
- PV design wizard completely overhauled
- Taking into account and output of derating losses
- Energy label: energy label issuance according to ErP directives
- Weather data from the latest Meteonorm 7 Webservice
- Performance and GUI improvements
New catalogue and database updates
- 282 inverters
- 396 batteries
- 6 PVT-modules
- 332 solar thermal collectors (Solar Keymark)
- New templates and database entries for Vaillant, Rotex, Saunier Duval, etc.
Polysun 7.2 – Release Notes – 28. Jan 15
New Features
- Simulation results in down-to-the-second resolution (Designer)
- Parameter variation (Designer)
- Ice storage tanks (Professional)
- Co-generators (Professional)
- 48 new hydraulic schemes (Professional)
- Input of own weather data (Professional)
- Input of own consumption profiles (Professional)
- Batteries (Professional)
- Micro-inverter dimensioning (Professional)
- New report languages: Dutch, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Czech, Croatian
- Various improvements
New catalogue and database updates
- 146 new PV modules
- 167 solar thermal collectors
- new tanks and new heat pumps
- New DWD weather data for 2035 (test reference years)
Polysun 7.1 – Release Notes – 21. Nov 14
New Features
- Polysun building model expanded with the possibility to simulate several buildings in one system
- Energy label: calculation and generation of energy labels for heating systems
- Improved inverter dimensioning
- Improved management of consumption profiles
- Added possibility to enter energy production profiles (e.g. wind or hydro-power)
- Simulation of exhaust air heat pumps
- New system templates and expansion for process and district heating applications according to IEA Task 49
- New ice-storage system templates
- Various improvements
New catalogue and database updates
- 52 new PV modules
- 16 new inverters
- 170 solar thermal collectors
- New catalogue and database additions for Tisun, Vaillant, Saunier Duval, Walter Meier, Soltop, Elcotherm, Vokera, Beretta, Bosch, Fototherm, PAID and many others.
Schemes and company-specific entries
- Vaillant company-specific hydraulic templates
- Saunier Duval company-specific hydraulic templates
- Tisun company-specific hydraulic templates
- Walter Meier company-specific hydraulic templates
- Soltop company-specific hydraulic templates
Polysun 7.0 – Release Notes – 16. May 14
New Features
- Inverter technology for power-controlled heat pumps
- Cogenerators and combined heat and power
- Off-grid PV systems with generators
- Micro-inverters
- Ice storage tanks
- Development of the Arabic version of the software
New catalogue and database updates
- 1200 new PV modules (worldwide)
- 580 new inverters (worldwide)
- 144 solar thermal collectors from the Solar Keymark and SPF databases (Europe)
- New catalogue and database entries for Siko Solar, Schweizer Metallbau, Hoval, Vaillant, Saunier Duval, Sirch Tankbau, Beretta etc.
Schemes and company entries
- Multivalent systems
- SMA Solar Technology AG templates
- Eturnity templates
- Siko Solar compact systems
Polysun 6.3 – Release Notes – 26. Feb 14
New catalogue and database updates
- 69 new PV modules (Photon, worldwide)
- 23 new inverters (Photon, worldwide)
- 142 Solar thermal collectors from the Solar Keymark and SPF databases (Europe)
- Various improvements and corrections
Polysun 6.2 – Release Notes – 27. Nov 13
New Features
- Consumption profiles in 15-minute time-steps
- Roof layout: improved user-friendliness, e.g. thanks to the display of roof coordinates and the integration into the design wizard
- Two-stage heat pumps
- New simulation model for cogenerators
- Photovoltaic off-grid systems
- Expansion of the battery component (battery charge controller, battery life)
- Input of monthly consumption figures for space heating purposes
- New language: Arabic
New catalogue and database updates
- 1741 new PV modules (worldwide)
- 154 new inverters (worldwide)
- 284 Solar thermal collectors from the Solar Keymark and SPF databases (Europe)
- New catalogue and database additions for Siko Solar, Schweizer Metallbau, Hoval, Vaillant, Saunier Duval, Sirch Tankbau, etc.
Schemes and company entries
- Siko Solar: Kombibox and T-Station
- Saunier Duval hydraulic schemes
- Hoval hydraulic schemes
Polysun 6.1 – Release Notes – 21. Jun 13
New Features
- Undo function (Polysun Designer)
- Electrical loads (new components, consumption profiles or consumption may be determined through simulation)
- Module layout: flat roof, vertical installation
New catalogue and database updates
- New PV modules (worldwide)
- New inverters (worldwide)
- Solar thermal collectors from the Solar Keymark and SPF databases (Europe)
- Kingspan, Hoval, Vaillant, Dr. Vetter, Energie Solaire, Thermosolar, Solarbayer
Company templates and components
- Solarbayer hydraulic templates
- Vaillant hydraulic templates
- Further Swedish standard hydraulic templates
- Air/water heat pump templates for solar thermal module
Polysun 6.0 – Release Notes – 18. Feb 13
New Features
- PV rooftop planner
- Batteries for PV self-consumption optimization
- Expansion vessel for solar loop
- Simulation analysis on time step level
- Heat pumps: input of freely-definable reference points
- Freely positionable text labels
- Freely programmable controllers
New catalogue and database updates
- 2037 new PV modules (worldwide)
- 244 new inverters (worldwide)
- 241 solar thermal collectors from the Solar Keymark and SPF databases (Europe)
- Battery catalogue
- Templates for heat pump systems
- Solcrafte
- Several new collectors (Absolicon, SET, SRCC concentrating collectors, etc.)
- Revision of ethylen mixtures
Schemes and company entries
- Sonnenkraft
- Solcrafte
- Solar Cooling
- Schweizer Metallbau
- Revised swimming pool templates
- Several new templates (solar cooling, latent heat storage, etc.)
Other improvements
- Chapter “Financial Analysis“ added to the manual
- New “Look & feel“
- SIA Report