Accelerate solar park development with a focus on landscape integration and public support

Bring site selection, design, and public engagement together in one powerful workflow. By building support and reducing resistance, you accelerate development, from early exploration to permit application. Analyze grid congestion and identify where solar parks and battery storage (BESS) can reinforce each other.

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Visualizations

Show how your solar park truly fits into the landscape. From a small field to a large-scale design, from the first sketch to the permit application. Using 2D maps, 3D designs, and 360° visuals combined with mitigation measures, you can quickly and photorealistically visualize the impact, building support and accelerating acceptance.

Realistic landscape integration

Show what the solar park looks like from every perspective and in any configuration, from public roads to private backyards. With 360° visuals and 3D models, clearly demonstrate how mitigation measures, such as hedgerows or tree lines, reduce visual impact and enhance the surrounding landscape.

Photomontages with Street View

With EnergyPlanner, you can create realistic visualizations and photomontages directly using Street View. This eliminates the need to capture photos in advance, allowing you to generate accurate and immersive visualizations of your project within 5 minutes. Photos can be easily calibrated with the calibration tool and masked with our SkyDetect© functionality.

Add your own 360° photos

With just one click, you can easily capture your own 360° photo — perfect when Street View isn’t available. Visualize the solar park from a backyard, a balcony, or deep within a nature reserve. You can also add 360° drone photos just as easily for a photorealistic aerial perspective.

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Mitigation & Design

Assess solar sites by integrating GIS layers. Energyplanner provides a comprehensive platform for evaluating solar farm sites. These tools help in selecting locations for solar parks, and ensure that projects are feasible and socially acceptable, supporting smoother planning and permitting processes.

Configurations

Energyplanner offers multiple configurations for solar parks. You can adjust the direction of the solar park manually, or set it at an east-west configuration for example. Energyplanner also offers a single-axis suntracking functionality.

Customizations

Further customize the solar park to have a more accurate representation by adjusting the frame colors, border width, dimensions of the solar panel, and many more. It is also possible to increase the height and frame when working with Agri-PV for example.

GIS mapping

Energyplanner is a powerful tool for visualizing and assessing potential wind farm sites. By integrating GIS (Geographic Information System) layers, users can incorporate detailed spatial data into their planning process, ensuring a comprehensive analysis of potential locations.

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Stakeholder Engagement

Public consultation gathers the opinions of stakeholders before key decisions are made. A well-integrated solar farm with local support that contributes to the community requires a tailored approach with proactive and transparent communication.

Present module

Publish Energyplanner projects yourself with our Present module, and share the url with any interested stakeholder or integrate the interactive project independently and easily into your own website.

Stakeholder Engagement Platform

Interactive platform to engage with your stakeholders. This platform combines project information, map layers and visualizations; viewers click on each viewpoint and look around themselves. The Stakeholder Engagement Platform also allows for virtual reality and image guided surveys.

Virtual Consultation Room

The Virtual Consultation Room is the perfect complement to traditional communication methods. By means of 360-degree photography and visualizations, the visitor sees an extremely realistic representation of the changes in the (living) environment. In addition to this visual representation of reality, other information (such as studies and reports) is presented in an attractive manner. Question/answer modules enable direct communication with stakeholders. Because the platform can be visited 24/7 and from any device, it is an accessible way for stakeholders to obtain information.

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See how it works

Energyplanner is a user-friendly web application that runs seamlessly in any modern web browser. It visualizes projects in multiple formats, including a 2D map, a 3D environment, and panoramic photos.

The application allows users to explore projects from any angle, offering an interactive and comprehensive view. Its accessibility and intuitive design make it an ideal tool for planning and stakeholder engagement.

Features to help develop your solar projects

Animations

Create an animation of your project

Customize solar park

Change the look of the panels, layouts and more

ESRI integration

Select the relevant ESRI layers

Wind and time

Adjust wind settings and time settings

PDF export

Make PDF exports for documentation

Professional Services

The consultants and support staff at The Imagineers are here to help — quickly and personally.

Personal guidance to get the max from the Solar module

Get the max out of the Solar module with the support of our experienced team. Whether it’s co-creating your first project, turnkey delivery to bridge capacity challenges, or hands-on help with support questions.

Enhance your Solar project with tailored content

We provide additional tailored content such as high-detail 3D terrain data, specific map layers, custom 3D objects, animations, or 360° photos taken on-site where Street View is not available.

Expert support for public consultations and open houses

Need support during stakeholder meetings? We’re happy to assist — ensuring you always make a professional impression. All to help you accelerate your project and achieve better results.

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