Utility-scale solar design at lightning speed

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Save more than 90% of time designing and engineering your PV plants and lower LCOE by 5% with efficient and integrated project development. Future proof your solar company today.

Here’s how we can help you

80% of the PV projects that make it into the queue for planning never make it to commercial operations. Ensuring fast and reliable results is the only way to mitigate risks and achieve success in today’s fiercely competitive solar market.

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x160 faster layouts

Increase layout creation by more than 160 times compared to traditional manual methods. Double your portfolio size in no time.

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5% less LCOE

Make confident and insight-driven decisions and reduce LCOE from site planning to construction.

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20% more asset profits

Iterate your layout configuration to find the best option in seconds and reduce human errors. Get bankable results your off-taker can trust.

How solar software delivers ROI to your organization

Unlocking ROI with solar software

We teamed up with Enverus to run a comprehensive analysis of where utility-scale developers, IPPs, and EPCs might be losing ROI during the PV design and engineering stage.

From solar site planning to feasibility study and beyond

Unlock the potential and boost the productivity of your development and engineering teams across the entire PV project lifecycle.

Solutions

Quick greenfield sitting

Selecting the right plot of land and mitigating project risks involves considering numerous factors such as interconnection capacity, pricing trends, competition, land suitability, and future economic viability. Explore how to perform a greenfield site analysis in no time.

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Quick solar site analysis

Prospect sites efficiently

Easily clone your PV plant designs and add, remove, or edit parcels within the project. Change any equipment—such as modules, inverters, or racking systems. Analyse prices, LCOE, energy production, and more. Prepare the project documentation ready for later stages.
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Prospect sites efficiently

Find the best electrical configuration

Iterate the electrical configuration of your project. Group the string in pitch or axial direction. Pick the design of your solar field— with either a string box or a DC bus system. Define the cable standard and use a range of parameters for each cable type. Compare each electrical setup and create the project documentation.
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Find the best electrical configuration

Hybridize your plant with BESS

Add AC-coupled BESS to new or existing PV plant projects. Pick the storage inverter and the number of inverters per PCS. Select maximum or a specific capaicty. Define the supply cycle duration, and the dimensions of PCS, containers and distances between blocks. Download the BESS design report, layout or SLD.
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Hybridize your plant with BESS

Perform cut-and-fill cost-benefit analyses

Use Google Earth or your own topography data within your design. Define installation limits for your racking so they’re excluded from your layout and apply earthworks where necessary. Use the BoQ to determine the total cut-and-fill volume and make confident data-driven decisions.
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Perform cut-and-fill cost-benefit analyses

Optimize land use

Find the best civil configuration to make the most of your acreage. Define your site and upload your topography —including cut-and-fill. Optimize your project by either maximizing or setting a specific capacity. Iterate your layout by adjusting the pitch distance or AC/DC ratio and setting power station location and setbacks.
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Optimize land use

Simplify your interconnection process

Design your substation or switching and breaking station by picking your preferred electrical standard using a range of available parameters. Manually choose the type or size of the power transformer, the whole gen tie layout and set losses at substation transformer level.
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Simplify your interconnection process

Quote projects with accurate BoM, CAPEX, and LCOE

Define the year of your project simulation to calculate output according to standard deviation. Upload horizon and albedo and set advanced parameters for losses. Use the built-in CAPEX templates or upload templates used by your company’s financial team. Create a BoM, and a comprehensive financial analysis of your plant ready to hand over to your off-taker.
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Quote projects with accurate BoM, CAPEX and LCOE

Determine project capacity and energy yield

Each tweak in your plant design will be reflected in the rated power, peak power, DC/AC ratio, or BESS-related results. Analyze the energy production estimates over time. Get energy yield results, design reports, and losses. Iterate your design based on the results of these data points until your project is optimized.
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Get project capacity and energy yield

Find the optimal layout with GCR, tilt and DC/AC ratio iterations

Easily edit those parameters for each design iteration of your plant. Use the powerful batch design to create up to ten simulations simultaneously with slight variations in GCR or DC/AC ratios. Compare them to find your optimal project layout.
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Find the optimal PV plant layout with GCR and DC/AC ratio iterations
A buyer's guide to solar software

A buyer's guide to utility-scale solar software

Thinking about adding another tool to your solar engineering and design stack? Here's how to pick the ideal solar software to expedite time-to-layout and slash LCOE. Discover the must-haves and deal breakers.

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households energy supplied

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tons of CO₂ mitigated

The best-in-class solar players choose to work with us

Empowering an integrated optimization approach in PV development

«We cut down engineering time on individual project with quite high certainty on the layout and yield, probably by 30 to 40%.»

Philip MannsPre-Construction Manager Renewables, Engie Germany

Enhancing Hodson Energy’s streamlined project qualification and PV design

«With Enverus PRISM, we quickly filter opportunities and gain a holistic view of viable projects. Enverus RatedPower automates our design process, turning weeks into minutes»

Shazim ChhapraChief Strategy & Commercial Officer
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Shazim Chhapra

Kickstarting efficient project pipelines

«Although every single engineering aspect and decision is reassessed upon further stages of development, having a pre-made set of rules and standards to start from really helps simplify the development process.»

Francesco PolitoEngineering Manager, Queequeg Renewables

Reducing PV layout generation time by up to 95%

«RatedPower allows us to have the capacity to do more strategic front-end early contractor involvement, helping us build projects faster and reducing schedule overrun risk.»

Cris Vincent AlidonVP, Engineering and Execution, Aboitiz Power
Cris Vincent Alidon

RatedPower's speed helps us boost our competitive advantage

«Now we can turn around design documents within hours and minutes to stakeholders, landowners, partners or engineers, to get through our regulatory process. This has allowed us to move projects forward faster.»

Megan ParsonsChief Engineer at Blue Ridge Energy
Megan Parsons

It improves my business by reducing time and money and increasing accurancy of early-stage assessments

«RatedPower's energy yields of our PV systems are pretty similar to what we use to have with legacy tools. It also has an excellent ability to launch new features.»

David NazarethDevelopment Manager
David Nazareth

Expanding solar projects beyond local borders

«We can now run simulations hundreds of times to find the most optimal solution for our customers, considering everything from modules, inverters, and pitch distance, to the financial assessment of all these different configurations.»

Grant PadiniProject Planner for Utility-Scale PV Systems at Ampere Dynamic
Grant Padini

Accelerating solar design from 5GW to 30GW per year

«Before RatedPower, there was a high level of variability, simple land layout to more irregular layouts. Now, we can quickly filter down sites from what is possible to what is realistic.»

Robert WrightDirector for Solar and Storage at Burns & McDonnell
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Streamlining BayWa's pre-engineering workload

«We needed software that was easy to handle, fast, and detailed. Now, with RatedPower, our developers can design in half an hour. Using AutoCAD or other tools would take one or two days.»

Mirko SchiezlHead of Engineering at BayWa r.e.
Mirko Schiezl

Optimizing PV projects and overcoming the limitations of legacy software 

«We have received a highly professional response when we needed support or training from the team. RatedPower helps us optimize our projects and provides us with a significant advantage over our competitors

Saad UmerExecutive Manager, Solar PV Network Head at ACWA Power
Saad Umer

RatedPower gives us quite a lot of more control over site design than outsourcing it

«It takes just a few days to figure out how much land do we need for a solar project. It used to take two or three months.»

Vann JoinesBusiness Development Director
Vann Joines

Empowering solar PV design customization through faster iterations

«In one or two weeks, I became very familiar with the software. I was able to do more iterations on our solar layouts, and we could fill the interconnection requests in no time.» 

Íñigo Sangroniz Solar Development Engineer at Solea Power

Enhancing land assessment efficiency for PV developers

«RatedPower produces a set of documentation to deal with most of the environmental agencies' requirements and for application of grid connection authorization processes.»

Luis Guilherme CastroSolar Development, Engineering Manager at Casa Dos Ventos

I don't need to hire a team of electrical engineers to develop a PV project

There is only a team of three of us doing the design work with RatedPower. We just need some hours —instead of weeks. It's amazing!

Andre FaustoOwner
Andre Fausto

We're reducing assessment from one week to hours

Deployment was fast and easy to use for the development team. We've reduced assessment time from one week to hours.

Rafael GómezHead of PV
Rafael Gómez

Doubling PV project development bandwidth with RatedPower

«Thanks to the new developments created by RatedPower that adapt to our needs, we could double our capacity. The time we used to spend on designing and reviewing designs is now focused on doing more projects.»

Lennin PiñeiroDevelopment Engineer at Celsia
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Centralizing solar development in one app

«We used to use a mix of tools like AutoCAD, spreadsheets and PVsyst. Now with RatedPower, our team can be innovative and explore more possibilities without wasting time, as each design only takes minutes to run.»

Thomas GerstchHead of Engineering at Iberdrola
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Iberdrola

Aligning stakeholders from development to procurement

«The solar industry is becoming more volatile and complex. In today’s world, developers, contractors, and buyers need flexible, scalable and configurable cost estimation tools linked to design for running different scenarios.»

Özer ErgulHead of Procurement
Özer Ergul

Driving efficiency and optimizing resources for more than 50 projects

«RatedPower offers highly personalized customer support. The team has been efficient in solving our doubts and helping us learn how to make the most out of the tool based on our unique needs.»

Antonio VerdugoHead, Technical Office Engineer at ABEI Energy
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Transitioning from 1MW ground-mounted projects to 250MW in 9 months

«RatedPower really helped us eliminate our bottlenecks. It goes beyond other tools because it helps us design not just the low voltage or medium voltage, but also the connection point to the grid.»

Lorik HaxhiuFounder, iRN
Lorik Haxhiu

EPCists expediting PV design and deliverables with solar software

«We looked for a tool that was quick for performing basic design and optimization, automatically producing deliverables. RatedPower increased the number of bids we could prepare and submit by around 50%.»

Stefano PapaleGlobal Head of Business Development at FATA
Stefano Papale

Competitive positioning in large-scale overseas PV plant bidding

«RatedPower has a solid customer base and good reputation abroad. It delivers required documents in multiple languages for our global bids while adopting international design standards»

Feng YuHead of New Business Department, Overseas Business Division at POWERCHINA
Feng Yu

Harnessing RatedPower to carry out invaluable PV equipment analysis

«RatedPower provides us with simplicity and flexibility in our solar projects while requiring fewer resources. Other software options typically demand more resources on our end to complete these calculations.»

Nicolás Fernández-VelillaSystem Solution Engineer at Sungrow
Nicolás Fernández

A three-in-one software that saves PNE time and resources

«It's easy to use, even for non-technical users. Now, anyone in our offices can efficiently create their own designs, and our German engineers can manipulate anything in our projects remotely since RatedPower's platform is cloud-based

Hugo NavarroSenior Photovoltaic Design Engineer at PNE AG

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RatedPower was recognized as the most implementable leader for its solar design software with high customer satisfaction scores on G2, a top software review platform.

  • 98% of users gave it 4 or 5 stars
  • 92% believe it is on the right track
  • 91% would recommend us
RatedPower vs PVsyst
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Engineering algorithms backed by Black&Veatch

To gather insights on how our energy production estimation algorithms compare to conventional standalone energy yield tools, we consulted with Black&Veatch, a prominent engineering consultancy firm. Find out what they discovered below.

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Resources

Ebook

State of Green Indonesia

Discover how Indonesia is unlocking its solar potential with recent reforms and investments, aiming to lead Southeast Asia's green transition.

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Ebook

A snapshot of PV solar simulation statistics in the USA

This ebook highlights key findings about the US, covering its growth potential in renewables, solar energy preferences, and trends in modules, inverters, structures, and battery energy storage systems (BESS). 

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Ebook

State of Green China

Download the full "State of Green: China" ebook to get exclusive insights and stay informed about one of the most significant energy transitions of our time.

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