What's new in Easy PV


New in April 2025

Updated performance & consumption tasks

We're rolling out new features and improved user interfaces across the Performance and Consumption tasks in Easy PV. These updates will help you generate system performance and consumption projections more accurately than ever. 

We've summarised the key changes below, but we also recommend reading the full user guides to understand how to use the new versions of these tasks and the new features we've added: Performance task user guide and Consumption task user guide.

Improved user interfaces

We've been working on improvements to many of the user interfaces in Easy PV to make them more intuitive and efficient. These UI upgrades are designed to make it quicker and easier to complete tasks and take full advantage of the new and existing features.

Automatic panel stringing

We've introduced automatic panel stringing, which recommends a suitable way to string panels based on the roofs and inverter inputs in your design. This new feature is a real time-saver—especially for larger systems—by helping you set up strings quickly and efficiently. You can manage preferences on your account to set how you want automatic panel stringing to apply. See below for more information.

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New domestic and commercial consumption profiles

You can now choose from a variety of domestic and commercial consumption profiles to build an accurate picture of energy usage throughout the year. A consumption profile calculates when energy is consumed—both annually and on a daily basis. For example, in a domestic home, most energy is typically used in the early morning and evenings. In contrast, an office profile reflects higher energy use during typical working hours, from around 09:00 to 17:00. 

The following commercial profiles are available

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Configure export limits and visualise export and inverter clipping

We've added support for setting export limits where required by the DNO. This ensures your system design complies with local network requirements and accurately reflects any restrictions on energy export and the potential financial benefits of the system.

You can toggle on clipping in the consumption task to show relevant information in the charts. This makes it easier to visualise when and how much potential generation is being limited by the inverter or by export limits, helping you make more informed design choices and assess whether an inverter is appropriately sized for the system.

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Configure Performance task preferences

You can now set preferences on your account for how you want the Performance task to work.

Mode: Choose between MCS and NREL methods to calculate the total annual generation

Panel allocation: Set whether you want Easy PV to:

MCS Self Consumption: Choose whether you want to:

Sunpaths: Choose whether you want Easy PV to automatically calculate shading based on the terrain and 3D buildings or whether you want this to be excluded so you can set the shading manually.

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Set default roof margins

You can now set a default roof margin to apply to all your projects. This is a margin around the edges of a roof that panel arrays should not overlap. It is shown as a yellow line on the roofs in the Easy PV Panels Task. If you use the auto-fill functionality to add panels automatically to the roof, it will ensure no panels cover the roof margin.

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For standard (free) Easy PV accounts

Navigate to your account preferences then select the design tab. Enter the roof margin in millimetres (mm) that you want to be applied by default to your new projects. You can override this on a per-project basis via the panels task.

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For PRO Easy PV accounts

Navigate to your PRO account settings and select the design tab. Enter the roof margin in millimetres (mm) that you want to be applied by default to new projects for all your users. This will override any defaults the users have set on their own account preferences, but they will be able to override the default margin on a per-project basis via the panels task.

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New in February 2025

New in January 2025

New in December 2024

New in November 2024

New in October 2024

Various small updates and enhancements have been rolled to the live site. This includes:

New in September 2024

Lots of exciting new features have been rolled out this month.

New financial task and automatic pricing

We've completely overhauled the financial task to make it quicker than ever to create accurate quotes and projections for your projects. This is quite a big change so take a look at our detailed guide to learn how to use the financial task.

Here's a summary of the important changes:

New MAGIC design mode

We're excited to be releasing a beta version of our new Magic design mode. Using 3D data and high resolution imagery, we automatically work out the form of buildings create 3D models for you, as well as identifying obstructions.

Magic mode is an experimental feature, and we won’t detect every building shape perfectly. Please expect to have to do some tweaking of roof shapes or obstructions on more complex roofs. It works better in urban areas where more detailed aerial imagery is available.

We’re working hard on magic mode, and we expect to regularly release improvements over the coming months. While this service is in the beta phase we are offering access for free to both free and pro users. Free users are restricted to three designs per day. We reserve the right to start charging for the service in future.

Customise customer proposal with your branding

We're delighted to be releasing one of our most requested features. Pro users can now apply their branding to the customer proposal document and apply additional customisations. To configure your customer proposal, navigate to the 'Proposal' tab in your Pro account settings.

New in August 2024

Numerous small updates and enhancements have been rolled to the live site. This includes:

New in July 2024

Lots of small updates and enhancements have been released. This includes:

New in June 2024

We’ve rolled out lots of new features in time to show them off at the Installer Show at the Birmingham NEC.
For standard Easy PV users
And for Pro users