Large scale solar CAD-like tool

Customize your layout for detailed design

4.5+170 reviews in G2

Technical developers and EPCs often struggle to access detailed designs and engineering quickly. Accelerate your design process with an integrated tool that delivers optimal layouts, simulates energy yield effortlessly, and helps you create accurate, compelling proposals.

  • Enable your team to manually change any equipment in your layout
  • Get key metrics on power, energy yield or costs while designing
  • Access hundreds of detailed technical documents for your plant, ready to share with your off-taker
Layout Editor
Blue Ridge Energy: «When developing PV speed is a competitive advantage RatedPower helped us reach»

Quickly optimize your layout with CAD-like solar software

Increase your solar asset profitability by 20% with an integrated, user-friendly CAD-like solar tool

Empower your development and engineering teams to work more efficiently through every phase of your PV project's detailed design.

Flexible Layout

Flexible layout design you control

  • Align structures manually
    Align structures with elements or parcel borders to customize your parametric layout, and effortlessly add or remove structures in just a few clicks.
  • Create clean solar PV designs
    Add or remove structures to fine-tune your layout or exclude sub-optimal positions.
  • Move structures in bulk
    Select the structures you want to move with one click, and the software will automatically align them with setbacks or other preset parameters.
Smarter Layout Editor

Build smarter PV layouts with real-time data

  • Customize more than just structures
    Change power station locations, adjust roads and refine MV block connections, all in seconds.
  • Compare results in a few clicks
    Compare up to 24 design iterations at once and choose the ones that best suit your project needs.
  • Inmediate capacity, production,and costs results
    Optimize key metrics —like DC/AC ratio, rated and peak power, price or LCOE— by making the most out of the available plant area.
Real time data

Get accurate calculations for the metrics you value the most

  • Get optimum electrical routes
    Maximize PV system efficiency by optimizing power station placement.
  • Easily compare across your design versions
    Precisely position power stations by aligning or rotating them to fit your layout, compare your customized designs to meet your targets.
  • Share a complete editable documentation package of your PV project
    Share the full list of technical documents —like BoQ, 3D layout, SLDs, and more— with the stakeholders of your project.

Solar CAD 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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Take a free product tour

Not ready to buy just yet? No problem. Take a free product tour and discover our detailed PV engineering software at your own pace.

Thousands of developers and EPCs choose to work with our solar engineering tool

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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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