3D Renderings for Solar Power Systems, Wind Farms and Turbines, Hydroelectric Plants, Electric Charging Stations and More
Last updated: 31st August 2023
Whether you need 3D renderings for a home installation of solar panels, or a large scale commercial or industrial renewable energy plant, we can help!
3D renderings can show you what your planned solar farm (or other renewable energy project) will look like once it’s finished being built, so you can make changes before any construction takes place or components are bought. This can save you lots of time and money.
As the world’s focus turns increasingly towards reducing climate damage and ramping up renewable energy capabilities, if you’re not onboard the renewable energy train you’re likely to get left behind. Green, renewable energy is most definitely the way of the future.
We’ve seen this recently with a large uptick in the number of enquiries from people looking to visualize how a renewable energy installation will look on their residential property or in their larger scale commercial or industrial project. Visualizing building projects before construction ever begins is what we specialize in!
Being able to see what your renewable energy project will look like before it’s begun being built can be important for a number of reasons. For example:
It helps you see if the vision you have in your head or on paper will look good in the real world.
It will let you make changes and adjustments before you start the costly process of building.
It can help your project to get investors by showing them its size, scale or scope.
Below is a range of our recent rendering images that include solar panels,
so you can see how versatile our designers are.
(Click on these images to open a larger version in a lightbox)
Being able to visualize your renewable energy installation is also important because - let’s be honest - renewable energy components, whether they are solar panels being installed on a residential property, or wind turbines installed in the countryside, are usually not the most attractive of things. And until there is widespread acceptance that these technologies are here to stay and that renewable energy is the way of the future, there can sometimes be pushback from people in the community or neighborhood who think renewable energy system installations are unsightly.
3D renderings can go a long way towards showing others that your proposed system can actually look good and blend into its surrounding environment well (or at least will not be that visible). This can make planning approval and acceptance from those who will be living near your installation easier.
3D renderings of your renewable energy project can also serve a number of other practical functions, including allowing you to calculate and visualize how many solar panels you could fit in a particular roof space for instance, or allowing you to position your components in the ideal way to get the best return on your investment in terms of energy production / output.
SOME EXAMPLES OF the type of work we can do for sustainable energy system and equipment Providers, installers and their customers
Our large team of renderings experts has hundreds of thousands of hours experience between them in 3D renderings of all shapes and sizes. If you’re a commercial solar company who wants to show their clients how their panels will look once installed on their houses, we can do that. Maybe you run an RV or van conversion store and you want to show customers how their stealth van will look with panels on the roof. Maybe you own a large shopping mall or parking garage with lots of roof space and you want to figure out how many panels you can add in the area available. Or maybe you’re looking to install a large scale wind farm in the countryside or ocean, or are looking at creating a new dam and hydroelectric power plant. Whatever the scale of your project we can help, including rendering your buildings, the environment surrounding them and more.
3D Renderings for residential / commercial solar systems and solar power storage areas
Solar panels can be installed very unobtrusively and still generate a lot of energy!
Recently we wrote a fairly in depth article about how 3D renderings can be used to assist in the process of installing solar panel systems and arrays. It covered things like:
Installing panels on commercial buildings like malls and carparks (with examples from a range of recent renderings we’d done)
Installing panels on residential properties
How you can use 3D renderings to simulate lighting conditions on and around your property to ensure you get the best power generation results
How panels can be used for planning approval processes; and;
The different ways you can go about getting a rendering to show your solar installation.
We won’t go into all those details again here. If this is the type of project you’re interested in, you can use the green button below to visit that post, or alternatively just go ahead and request a quote from us or give us a call to discuss your project on 1-877-350-3490.
Design from scratch, or send us your photos to add renderings into
There are two ways we can help you with 3D renderings for solar power installations. If you’re working on a project that will be a completely new construction, rendering everything from scratch is the way to go.
If you’re adding solar installations to existing areas or buildings however, you can send us photographs of the locations where the solar panels will be added and we can render them straight into your existing images.
Check out the following before and after photos for some examples, showing the original locations on the left and updated rendering including the solar arrays on the right.
Click on any of the images to open them in a bigger light box.
For more examples check out our dedicated solar installation renderings page.
If you’re planning a wind farm like this, now you can see what it will actually look like in its planned environment before you start building. This can help allay fears of people who will be living in the vicinity that they will be an eyesore.
Landscape / environment visualizations for wind farms and windmill power generators
Wind farms may possibly be the most controversial version of renewable energy. Millions and millions of homes in the US are powered via wind turbines / windmills, but many people feel like they are an eyesore.
This is an area where 3d rendering could really shine, as it could show people who will be living near the proposed installation (be it one or one hundred wind turbines) that they can blend in with the natural environment, or that they will be masked by natural features such as mountains.
To make a rendering like this, we can either take a high quality photograph of the area and superimpose the windmills onto the environment, or we can render the whole area from scratch based on your plans.
In many ways hydroelectric stations are very much like regular commercial buildings. We can create renderings that show the planned station in its surrounding environment, including trees, dam, or whatever else you’d like to include.
3D Visualizations of Hydroelectric stations
Hydroelectric plants and dams are very much like regular architectural 3D renderings we do, but typically they would be on a larger scale (although we could also render layouts for small-scale residential hydroelectric systems for people who live close to rivers or tidal water sources etc).
Large scale renderings are no problem at all however. We’re very accustomed to doing larger projects; we’ve rendered cityscapes, train stations, airports and more!
We can render your proposed project in it’s natural environment. If you will have a guided tour or museum on site we can also create to scale 3D printed replicas of your plant from the 3D renderings we do. For more information about this service, check out our 3D models page or get in touch with us through our quote form or by calling us directly.
If you’re planning to add electric charging stations to a new or existing development, we can show you what they’ll look like in real life well before you get to the construction stage of your project.
3D Renderings for electric charging stations
Increasingly we are seeing electric vehicles on our roads. Some car companies even have lofty goals for moving their production to electric-only cars. For example, Volvo has recently stated that they plan to be fully electric by 2030, and to have 50% of their fleet be electric, and the other half consisting of hybrids by 2025. That’s quite amazing considering that electric vehicles are still a relatively new technology. And what this push means is that there is going to be a surge in the need for electric vehicle charging stations.
Already there are niche providers of electric charging stations, but it is likely in the future we’ll see them almost everywhere, at “gas” stations, superstores and malls, on highways and more.
If you are planning to create a dedicated electric charging station for electric vehicles, or simply plan to add charging stations to your building, we can help you create renderings that will show what they will look like. This type of rendering is also great for printed or online (eg. to put on your website) advertising materials for your business.
3D renderings for biothermal and geomass plants
Currently biothermal and geomass plants are the least commonly used forms of renewable energy in the United States, although in some areas of the world like Iceland biothermal energy is more common.
Nonetheless, if you’re planning the development of a biothermal or geomass plant and need a rendering to show what your proposed plant will look like, drop us a line!
educational virtual tours - A novel use for 3d Renderings for renewable energy projects
3D virtual tours could be an excellent and engaging way to teach school students and other interested parties about your facilities and the benefits of renewable energy.
We like to think outside the square when it comes to creative and innovative uses for our 3D rendering services. One trend that we have been at the forefront of is virtual reality tours. There has been strong adoption of these tours in 2020 - 2021 in the real estate industry, as they allow people to shop for houses from anywhere in the world. So how does this relate to renewable energy?
As renewable energy becomes increasingly popular, we envision an interest by educators and governments in wanting to remotely teach their students (or anyone else who is interested) about these new technologies. While it might not be possible or safe for someone to directly visit a hydroelectric plant or an installation of wind turbines out at sea, it is very possible for us to create virtual reality renderings that are the next best thing to people being there in person. These can be viewed with a dedicated virtual reality headset or a smartphone and allow the viewer to interact with and move around the environment in a way that’s not possible with any other technology. This type of rendering could have huge educational potential to get more people interested in adopting careers in renewable energy or in using these technologies to power their lives.
Get a quote on your renewable energy project
Our experienced team of CAD designers can handle any project, whether big or small. We also have a large team, meaning that we can deliver very high quality work in a very short time period, so let us know if your project has a tight deadline for completion.
You can get a quote on your renewable project in 5 - 10 minutes by getting in touch through our quote form, or calling us directly on 1-877-350-3490. We look forward to working with you!
