Earthwork estimating software for your large-scale solar photovoltaic projects.

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Use our earthwork estimating software to collect more accurate topography estimations for your projects and minimize your financial risk.

  • Lower the costs of your project by optimizing the results of your earthwork platform
  • Identify the main earthworks criteria to simplify construction and increase peak power
  • Increase buy-in for your project with accurate earthwork estimations
  • Get access to detailed documentation for your day-to-day use with your stakeholders
    Earthwork estimating software

    RatedPower allows users to quickly and easily produce multiple designs and get a comprehensive overview of a site's potential capacity, including earthwork estimates requirements.

    User in Renewables & EnvironmentMid-Market (51-1000 employees)
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    Process your earthwork data in a few clicks and optimize your project calculations

    Quick earthwork calculations

    Quick earthwork estimates

    • Estimate earthwork per group of structures
      Accurately calculate earthwork by area and visualize them in 3D layouts.
    • Assess undulation tolerance
      Compare the difference in length between piles in a structure, stretching them to match the terrain while keeping the pile depth constant.
    • Include pile length and slopes measurements
      Consider the different criteria and limitations to apply the correct amount of earthwork.
    Accurate earthwork results

    Accurate project results

    • Calculate optimal structures
      Include optimized data of a group of mounting structures for a more realistic design which can be used to calculate the cut and fill volume with better accuracy.
    • Optimize peak power
      Use our software to group adjacent structures requiring earthworks into larger platforms, improving the constructability of the design and potentially boosting peak power.
    • Define structure limits
      Leverage the option to include structure installation limits and to remove installations above the limit value set by your manufacturer.
    Earthwork estimates report

    Easy access to documentation

    • Include results in wide range of documents
      Earthwork calculations will be included in documents such as your Bill of quantities, topography analysis, structure profiles and design reports.
    • Share detailed documents
      Your report will include information like the maximum cut depth and fill height of each platform.
    • Create professional documentation
      The reports generated can be edited and shared in your proposals for stakeholders in different formats like .pdf and .docx.

    Earthwork estimating software that grows with you

    Basic

    Get the basic engineering and feasibility studies for your utility-scale plants all the way to the grid point.

    Includes unlimited users, projects and designs.

    • PV design layout, modeling and 2D energy yield estimates
    • Hybridation, standalone storage and interconnection design
    • Unlimited email support
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    Advanced

    Perform solar PV detailed engineering and get your project ready for off-taker.

    Includes unlimited users, projects and designs. Also, everything in Basic plus:

    • Detailed PV engineering and layout editability
    • Live on-demand technical training
    • Access to your own repository of support materials
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    Enterprise

    Identify buildable sites, reduce project siting risks, and get the full cycle engineering —from site analysis to detailed engineering.

    Includes unlimited users, projects and designs. Also, everything in Advanced plus:

    • Site analysis and prospection capabilities in selected geographies.
    • Teams management
    • SSO
    • Designated Principal Consultant, serving as an extension of your team
    • Priority email support
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    Thousands of professionals choose to work with our earthwork estimating software

    Ekhi: From feasibility checks to confident designs in record time

    «One of the most common challenges we face is space constraints. We need to play around with different tilts and pitch, and this used to be quite a long process with several tools. The great thing about RatedPower is that we can simulate many scenarios, varying all these parameters, and have it done in no time. With the Layout Editor, we now see a huge improvement when fine-tuning our plant layouts.»

    Paula Mateos / Emma SánchezHead of Project Feasibility at Ekhi / Project Analyst at Ekhi

    Res Group: Enhancing project delivery by connecting RatedPower with AutoCAD and PVsyst©

    «When manually doing a preliminary site layout in AutoCAD, it can take considerable time and resources. Depending on the size of the site, it can easily take one or two days just for one single scenario. RatedPower’s ability to export layouts as DWG files ensures smooth integration into AutoCAD, helping reduce this workload and speed up design iterations.»

    Isabelle Gezer Renewable Enery Consultant at RES Group

    Recurrent Energy: Turning multi-tool workflows into a unified PV+BESS platform

    «We have reduced our overall engineering workflow by about 50%, thanks to the platform combining CAPEX estimation, AutoCAD designs, and battery storage simulations. We’ve been able to design several megawatts of storage and it has helped us improve our grid connection applications for stationary BESS projects throughout Europe.»

    Nithya Susan VargheseEngineering Manager at Recurrent Energy

    NRGi: Improving investment decisions with consistent PV design data

    “At the last steps, just before financial investment decision, I was still able with RatedPower and the approach that we were using to improve the IRR for the project by 0.2 to 0.5%

    Ulrich BussemasPower Technology Manager at NRGi

    Akuo Energy: Making smarter use of land with Layout Editor

    «The new Layout Editor gives us more flexibility to optimize land use, with the option to remove or add structures and align them with parcel borders. It helps us make better use of the total available area of our plant.»

    Marwa Jemai Solar Techno Manager at Akuo Energy

    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 UmerBusiness Development Director, Solar PV at ACWA Power
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    Transforming PV development through an integrated optimization approach

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

    Philip MannsPreconstruction Team Lead at Engie
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    Solución Solar: Boosting portfolio growth with integrated solar software

    «Today, we have layouts, financial analysis, and generation forecasts—under different exceedance probability scenarios—all in the same tool, just as banks are demanding today.»

    José Rodrigo Llarena GreñasCEO at Solución Solar

    Venn Energy: Speeding up PV layouts while optimizing resources

    «Each simulation gives us detailed energy and financial insights, helping us make informed decisions quickly and efficiently.»

    Promit RoyDesign and Commissioning Manager at Venn Energy

    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

    Increasing accuracy of early-stage assessments while saving time and costs

    «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

    Hidrosolar: Unlocking 30% more efficiency in solar design with RatedPower

    «We were able to be up to 30% more efficient when making estimates for new projects by having a clearer idea for future developments. So, in terms of time, we could save around 20% to 30%»

    Diego Armando ZaldivarEnergy Markets Analyst at Hidrosolar

    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 at Hodson Energy
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    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 at Queequeg Renewables

    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

    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 AlidonEngineering and Construction VP at 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 of Engineering at Blue Ridge Energy
    Megan Parsons

    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 WrightSolar and Storage Director at Burns & McDonnell
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    Empowering Recurrent Energy from PV design to financial feasibility

    «Of all the solutions we evaluated, RatedPower proved to be the most comprehensive, allowing us to generate layouts, one-line diagrams, reports, energy yield forecasts, and CAPEX & LCOE estimates—all in one platform.»

    Pedro Luiz de Almeida SilvaProject Engineering Coordinator at Recurrent Energy.

    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.
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    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 JoinesDirecteur du Développement Commercial
    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 GómezPV Manager
    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 GerstchConstruction, Engineering and Grid Director at Iberdrola
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    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 of Technical Office at ABEI Energy
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    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 YuNew Business Manager, International 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-VelillaIngénieur Solutions Système chez 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 NavarroHead of Solar Engineering at PNE AG

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