SMA SUNNY DESIGN 3 - Manual (Page 7)

SMA Solar Technology AG 2 Product Description
User Manual SD3-SDW-BA-en-20 7
2 Product Description
2.1 Sunny Design
Sunny Design is a software for planning and designing PV systems and PV hybrid systems. Sunny Design provides you
with a design recommendation for your planned PV system or your planned PV hybrid system. Sunny Design also
proposes a combination of PV array(s) and inverter(s) which meet, as closely as possible, your requirements regarding
power class, energy yield and efficiency.
In addition, you have the option of determining and optimizing your potential self-consumption, sizing the cables,
evaluating efficiency and, in PV hybrid systems, configuring gensets.
Difference Between Sunny Design Web and Sunny Design Desktop Version
Sunny Design is available as an online version "Sunny Design Web" and as a desktop version "Sunny Design 3".
The range of functions of both versions is identical. You can only use Sunny Design Web via the Internet. You must install
the desktop version of Sunny Design on your computer and, after initial registration, you do not need an Internet
connection. To ensure that your Sunny Design desktop version remains current, (e.g. new inverters, new PV modules),
you should occasionally perform an update for the Sunny Design desktop version via the Internet (see Section 6.22
"Performing an Update for Sunny Design Desktop Version", page 30). Sunny Design Web is always up-to-date.
You can synchronize Sunny Design Web and the Sunny Design desktop version via the Internet. This means that your
Sunny Design projects are available in the Internet in Sunny Design Web and on your computer in the
Sunny Design desktop version. For synchronization, you must have an Internet connection.
2.2 Functions
Using Sunny Design, and in compliance with all current legal and industrial requirements, you can plan various design
scenarios with all SMA inverters in the form of projects. In Sunny Design the following project types are available:
• PV project: for planning a PV system
• PV project with self-consumption: for planning a PV system with self-consumption
• PV hybrid project: for planning a PV system with electric generators
Depending on the selected project type, Sunny Design provides the following functions:
Sunny Design Web: registration required for full range of functions
To use the full range of functions of Sunny Design Web, you must register.
Sunny Design Desktop version: registration required and usable by one user per computer
To use the Sunny Design desktop version, you must first register for Sunny Design Web.
The Sunny Design desktop version can only be used by one user per computer. After initial login to the Sunny Design
desktop version on the computer, the Sunny Design desktop version can only be used by this user on this computer.
Function PV project PV project with
self-consumption
PV hybrid project
Determine and optimize self-consumption ✓
Determine the potential fuel savings and CO
2
savings
✓
Use predefined load profiles, import own
consumption data, import consumption data
from Sunny Portal, create own load profiles
✓ ✓
Configure the gensets ✓
Wire sizing ✓ ✓ ✓
Plan PV system monitoring ✓ ✓ ✓
Analyze efficiency ✓ ✓ ✓
Enter prices for PV modules and inverters ✓ ✓ ✓