Unlock Your Power Potential: Why Choose RatedPower vs PVsyst?
A solid PVsyst Alternative
Whether you're a developer, EPC, or engineer, RatedPower offers numerous benefits tailored to your needs. We continuously update and enhance our software based on client feedback, ensuring it remains ahead of the curve. By utilizing our software, you can leverage these benefits to streamline your workflow and achieve greater efficiency.
In the following section, we'll explore another software, PVsyst, and provide a comparative analysis to help you understand the value you could be gaining with RatedPower.
Do more than the energy yield
We asked our best sales and customer success teammates this same question: “What are the most relevant differences between RatedPower and PVsyst?“. They gave us a handful of clear answers that should help you.
What’s the difference between RatedPower and PVsyst?
PVsyst is a software used for studying photovoltaic systems focusing on architects, engineers and researchers. They focus on measured results, energy and economic analysis and project bankability. The software cannot be installed on a server, remote desktop or an Azure virtual desktop machine. Check out this comparative table to learn more about how you can add value to your projects and teams with RatedPower.
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Why choose RatedPower instead of PVsyst?
- Minimize human error and enjoy streamlined processes
- Forget about basic calculations for your developers and engineering teams
- Avoid limited collaboration between teams and control your projects' visibility
What are the main adavantages for you?
Check out how you can gain a competitive edge by using RatedPower's software and start increasing your profits by more than 20%!
Thousands of professionals choose to work with our solar software
Excellent tool for large (10+MW) PV projects planning and optimization
Very intuitive, yet complex interface packed with detailed features necessary for PV project planning. Includes energy yield model, so we can forget about performings tens of PVSYST simulations in the early design / optimization stage.
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.»
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.»
Without RatedPower, all the requests from our developers and project managers went directly into our engineering team. This led to a significant workload, especially with constant back-and-forth discussions on new land plots, a boundary change here or a gaspipe there. With RatedPower, both developers and project managers can do a quick pre-estimation of the solar projects—power on site and yield—by themselves, before involving the engineering team for more detailed planning.
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.»
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.»
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.»
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»
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.»
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.»
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%.»
RatedPower 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.»
Celsia doubles PV project development bandwidth with RatedPower's platform
We use to outsource basic engineering work. Deploying RatedPower's software enabled my development engineering team do it in-house. After the first month, Celsia reached 1 hectare per megawatt, from 1,5 ha/mW.
Spearheading the transition to renewables
«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.»
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.»
Automate your asset design and project optimization
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.
Prospect sites efficiently
Optimize land use
Simplify your interconnection process
Determine project capacity and energy yield
Hybridize your plant with BESS
Quote projects with accurate BoM, CAPEX, and LCOE
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An energy yield +0.24% different to PVsyst
Energy yield modeling is a mix of hard data and thorough scientific-led methodology. Specific yield or annual degradation are common results in any energy yielding software, such as PVsyst or their alternatives.
We turned to Black & Veatch to compare RatedPower's energy yield module to PVsyst output in four real-life cases. Deltas range between +0.24% and +1.08%. Related detailed yielding documentation is available in both tools.
Frequently asked questions
RatedPower's software can serve as an alternative or complement to PVsyst, offering additional functionalities such as in-depth calculations for battery storage (BESS), topography analysis, earthworks, and more. While PVsyst primarily focuses on energy yield calculations with a single report of yield data simulation, RatedPower provides built-in modules for feasibility analysis, conceptual design, and proposal generation in addition to energy production calculations.
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