Suboptimal Panel Orientation and Tilt: Placing panels at the wrong angle can reduce energy production. Solar simulation tools like PVsyst or Helioscope can be used to analyze shading and optimize panel placement. Errors in design can lead to inefficiencies, increased costs, and safety risks. In this blog, we will walk through the most common solar installation mistakes and provide solutions on how to avoid them, ensuring your solar panel system. Orientation refers to the cardinal direction your solar panels face (north, south, east, or west), also known as the azimuth angle. In this guide, we'll break down. All this entails determining the optimal solar panel angle and its orientation in fixed installations to achieve the minimum cost of solar power per kilowatt-hour (kWh) generated and get the most out of our investment. Usually, solar panels of a self-consumption system are located on the roof. In the final installment of Aurora's PV System Losses Series we explain specific causes of energy production loss in solar PV systems — and explore solar panel angle efficiency losses, as well as losses from tilt and orientation, incident angle modifier, environmental conditions, and inverter.