Project feasibility is often only analysed to the best of the consultancy's Excel capacity and financiers spend significant resources picking apart complex calculations. The industry lacks a reliable, independent, evidence-based method for verifying and benchmark project readiness and Encast has been designed specifically to fill that gap.
Industry available photovoltaic solar and inverter systems, planned to any size and scale. The system will model static, single and multi-axis tracking arrays and will estimate the number of panels you can fit in an area based on the criteria you require. Analysing output every 30 minutes for project life.
Structure array design life, panel angles and areas covered.
Panel number estimation tool based on area and panel types.
Recommended panel angles and locations for optimum output.
Build in energy losses from cables, inverters, soiling etc.
Model based on tracking systems, and planned maintenance.
Manage battery performance, design life and operational times with a simple interface that allows you to plan a battery solution for redundancy, shortfall or power equalisation. Selectable from our extensive database on batteries, we are constantly adding new models and performance data.
Multiple battery banks planned into the design.
Optional battery design life entry.
Optional decommissioning timeline for optimising performance.
Choose from our preset battery list to save time on specifications.
Build a comprehensive maintenance and operational schedule.
Set up wind turbine farms from kilowatt to hundreds of megawatts in scale, with complete half hourly output modelling. With an exhaustive list of turbines availabe, have the confidence to model wind power of any size and height, taking advantage of our multilevel wind data (10m, 100m).
Build in the shade factor for adjustment of obstructions.
Select from our large database of turbines.
Optional decommissioning timeline for optimising performance.
Build a comprehensive maintenance and oprational schedule.
Modelling utilising live meteorological forecast data.
Using a proprietary implementation of a US EPA digester model, our AD system allows for seasonal variation in feedstocks with transition of gas output between them, providing rapid first order estimations of output. Our robust and flexible framework also allows us to add new feedstocks on request if provded with a material characterisation to our specification.
Large database of feedstocks for different environment.
Include agricultural and municipal waste into models.
Ability to model seasonal feedstock variation.
Build multiple digesters in the same scenario sites.
A comprehensive maintenance and operational schedule.
Site border limits and analysis tools allow for sophisticated modelling of PPA financial performance and site constraints. This allows direct and meaningful comparisons across scenarios in a project when evaluating whether to host power infrastructure onsite or to deploy elsewhere.
Transformer sizing limitations up and downstream.
Build complex power tariffs over multiple years.
30 minute frames on tariffs and charges per day.
Granular analysis over a month to analyse usage requirements.
Multiple tarrif plans from different PPA providers.
Encast allows you to model the reliability and operation of generators as part of a realistic island mode solution. Our system built in-house from the ground up allows for complex operation and maintenance schedules and with options to ensure generators are running at their peak efficiency.
Large database of pre-entered gas and diesel generators.
Set fuel types EN590, HVO , UCO or UCOME.
No CHP, Custom, Jacket Water, Exhaust, Jacket & Exhaust.
Upper and lower set point adjustment and controller sync.
Comprehensive maintenance and operational schedule.
Our scale agnostic implementation allows anything from domestic heat pumps to industrial units to be modelled and integrated into a solution with ease.
Large database of pre-entered heat pump properties.
Set the temperature Hot Water, Heating Low, Heating High.
Optional heat pump design life entry.
Build in decommissioning dates and costs.
Comprehensive maintenance and operational schedule.
Combined Cycle Gas Turbines can be included in models using a multiparameter system allowing for various starting temperatures, ramp rates and complex control. In addition multiphase startup and shutdown modelling ensures accurate representation of control and operations across decades of project modelling. This allows project owners to model the beneficial effects of CCGT economies of scale.
Accurate multi-phase startup modelling.
Complex ramp up and ramp down facility.
Facility for complex control and operational criteria.
Comprehensive maintenance and operational schedule.
Comprehensive operating criteria to balance costs.
To bridge all use cases, from domestic homes to conference centres, all the way to large industrial plants. We have a flexible and accessible implementation of both resistive heaters and gas fired boilers available to meet modelled heat demands.
Large database of pre-entered gas and resistive boilers.
Set heating capacity in kW.
Set heater efficiency percentage.
Optional boiler design life and decommissioning planning.
Comprehensive maintenance and operational schedule.
A scalable system for liquid based heat storage including non-water heat transfer fluids such as water and ethylene mixes and dielectric high performance fluids such as Fluorinert. This includes specific gravity and boiling point considerations, with thermodynamic modelling for heat exchangers.
Set input and output heat exchange capacities in kWh.
Build in heat exchanger efficiencies for up and downstream.
Heat transfer coefficient from liquid to surrounding gas.
Fluid type, volume and surface area and ambient temperatures.
Comprehensive maintenance and operational schedule.
We offer a range of gas mixtures to run on reciprocating gas engines in addition to offering a variety of sustainable fuels to use in industrial diesel engines. These are complete with their own efficiency curves and ranges.
Multiple biogas blends.
Widely available renewable fuels.
Models accounts correctly for fuel efficiency curves.
Built into the modeling for gas and diesel engines.
Different engines can accept different fuels in the same model.