Discover RatedPower’s Layout Editor

Have you ever wanted to instantly move, add, or delete structures in your solar designs and get real-time data about how those adjustments affect your DC output?

Do you wish you could reposition roads and electrical routes or play with distances between elements to find the most effective configuration?

Do you want to create smart and bankable plans fast and accurately?

RatedPower lets you do exactly that: iterate your design until it meets your project’s goals. With advanced features that combine precision, automation, and instant feedback, you can adjust each parameter until you arrive at a financially sound and commercially viable layout your stakeholders can trust.

1. Enjoy layout design flexibility

A solar plant’s layout is its foundation, directly affecting performance, profitability, and long-term success. With a strategic blueprint, you can scale your yield up while scaling costs down.

RatedPower puts you in control of your design to make it easier to fine-tune your layout. Use it to precisely match structures to parcel borders or align them with other structures. You can also move, add, or remove components to adapt to site constraints.

Our platform offers flexible configurations. Choose adaptive or regular block layouts to suit your specific site needs. You can rely on real-time data to maximize capacity on all kinds of terrain, from simple flat topographies with minimal shading to irregular surfaces with obstacles and varying elevations.

Do you need to explore multiple design options? RatedPower’s batch design feature can generate up to 10 layout configurations simultaneously so you can compare results and refine your design step by step. You can then use those batch designs to adjust pitch distance, DC/AC ratio, or tilt angles to raise energy output and reduce costs while optimizing land use.

2. Move structures out of non-optimal positions

RatedPower knows how important it is that every structure should contribute to your PV plant’s performance. Our platform makes it simple to:

• Remove or reposition structures that waste space or impair efficiency.

• Quickly clean up unnecessary elements.

• Eliminate isolated structures that don’t contribute to energy production.

With better placement, you can maximize usable space and position structures to capture maximum sunlight. This minimizes energy losses from shading, reflection, or suboptimal angles.

Efficiently positioned components also mitigate bottlenecks to deliver the maximum amount of generated electricity to the grid. The result is a solar plant that’s built for peak performance.

3. Customize with real-time layout data

Harness your PV plant’s full potential with RatedPower’s live and dynamic simulations. Experiment with different structure placements and immediately see how they affect your site’s output and efficiency. This instantaneous layout analysis and interactive feedback make it easier to refine your DC power installation and minimize unused space.

Do you want to evaluate the outcomes of different iterations side by side? Streamline your decision-making with our real-time comparison tool, which allows you to:

All these features work together to find your project’s most efficient, cost-effective layout.

4. Optimize space and distances between equipment, roads, and power stations

Efficient spacing makes a solar plant reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly. Shorter distances between system components slash cabling requirements to cut material costs and installation time. Shorter cables also lessen voltage drop and reduce the risk of damage and faults.

In terms of environmental impact, optimal spacing shrinks your project’s footprint to lower land costs and minimize ecological disturbance. You can blend your PV plant into the landscape while protecting natural habitats from unnecessary disturbances.

From a maintenance perspective, proper spacing speeds up repairs to keep your plant running smoothly. It also keeps vehicles and electrical equipment safely separated to reduce the chance of accidents.

RatedPower makes optimizing space and distances simple:

• Adjust the placement of structures, roads, and power stations to create efficient layouts.

• Easily modify road alignments by adding or deleting vertices and lines, all while maintaining required distances from other elements.

• Align or rotate power stations to fit perfectly within your layout for maximum efficiency.

• Need to improve MV block connections? RatedPower provides the data you need to minimize cable and trench lengths. 

With these tools, RatedPower can help your PV plant work as efficiently as possible.

5. Generate accurate calculations

RatedPower combines engineering and financial data in one tool to improve your designs while keeping costs in check. As you edit, the software promptly provides the plant’s and its power stations’ DC and AC power values. This condenses engineering time and helps you make confident, data-driven adjustments.

Need detailed financial insights? You can analyze your project’s CAPEX and LCOE right on our platform, including other financial metrics like ROI, IRR, NPV, payback and more. Use the default cost templates or customize them by inputting unit prices to get an accurate cost breakdown within seconds!

Conclusion

RatedPower gives developers, EPCs, and engineering firms the agility to configure PV and BESS layouts that boost energy output, trim costs, and rationalize workflows.

Our software allows you to control many aspects of your layout. Run multiple simulations and test various configurations to deliver technically sound and financially attractive designs. With real-time data, accurate calculations and +400 technical documents, you can improve your project’s viability to attract investor confidence and gain stakeholder support.

Clients worldwide use RatedPower to quickly design and submit PV and BESS plant layouts that meet project reviewers’ technical and regulatory requirements and approving authorities, including utility companies and grid operators. 

Request a demo to see how our tools can help you optimize every detail for better performance and profitability.