The Consuel technical file, drawn from your electrical design
In France, a new or modified solar installation needs Consuel’s stamp on its certificate of conformity before it is energised, and Consuel asks for a technical file with it. pvSpline prepares that file from the project’s electrical design: the attestation and the forms that apply, the values the design settles, and what you still have to declare.
The attestation and the forms, worked out for you
- The attestation: blue (Cerfa 15523) for an installation without storage, purple (Cerfa 15524) as soon as the project simulates a physical battery.
- The SC forms the design calls for: SC 144A-5 for a string-inverter design without storage, for example, the storage items of SC 144C-5 and SC 144C2-2, SC 143 behind a delivery point above 36 kVA or in HTA, and SC 145-1 for a bidirectional (V2H or V2G) charging point.
- The generator line: the PV generator’s maximum open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current, Uocmax and Iscmax, as the forms ask for them.
Pre-filled from the drawing
The engine reads the one-line diagram and fills in every item value it can derive from it, numbered as on form SC 144A-5. Copy values puts the forms and those values on the clipboard, ready to paste into Consuel’s online form, and a dash marks each value the design does not settle.
What only you can declare
Some items depend on facts no drawing holds: how the installation is connected, the protective devices fitted, the earthing arrangement, the installer. You declare them on the Consuel tab of the Diagram panel, in folds that follow the forms:
- Connection: through the consumption installation, through a dedicated delivery point or off the public grid, with the service connection and the board.
- DC side: the main PV cable, the general DC switch, the earthed polarity, the lightning rod and the DC surge protector.
- Inverter and AC board: decoupling with its EN 50549 certificate, the AC breaker, the residual-current device and the AC surge protector.
- Earthing, battery, identification and modification: the earthing arrangement and the earth resistance, the storage items, the installer and the site, and whether the work modifies an existing installation.
Every field starts undeclared, and an undeclared item stays listed as open until you fill it in. Fields that do not apply to the design, such as the battery items without a battery, are greyed out.
Findings that point to the fix
The checks run with the design checks, each time the diagram is drawn. Each finding names its item of the form and how serious it is: to fix, to check, to declare, or a note. Click one and the installation data it is about opens. The verdict follows the findings, from not ready to file while an item is to fix, to every item declared once the checks find nothing to fix in the declared values.
One PDF to file with the forms
The Consuel dossier tab of the results prints the file: a summary page with the attestation, the forms, Uocmax and Iscmax, the installer, the client and the site, then the findings, the pre-filled item values and the one-line diagram on a landscape page. It needs no simulation run, so it is there before the first one.
The Consuel file in five steps
- Open Diagram and, if the project has no electrical design yet, click Create initial design.
- On the panel’s Consuel tab, declare the connection, the protections, the earthing and the installer.
- Read the Consuel dossier group on the Issues tab and clear what is marked to fix or to check.
- On Results, open the Consuel dossier tab and click Download PDF.
- Click Copy values and paste the pre-filled items into Consuel’s online form.
Questions
Does the file replace Consuel’s forms?
It goes with them. The dossier is a worksheet for the official forms: its values are pre-design values that the installer checks and answers for, and its checks bear only on what you declared, so a dossier with nothing left to fix does not mean the installation conforms.
Do I need to run a simulation first?
No. The dossier is drawn from the electrical design, so it is ready before the first run, like the permit package.
Which attestation does a battery call for?
The purple one, as soon as the project simulates a physical battery: a pack picked on the BATTERY card under the Self-consumption + storage or Off-grid system type. A virtual battery does not count, and the dossier stays blue.
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