Free and premium solar irradiance calculator

Get bankable PV energy yields by connecting your trusted meteo data streams

Accurate solar irradiance data is the foundation of your future PV plant. You can easily upload your own TMY dataset in .csv or connect to trusted sources to ensure the bankability of your utility-scale solar project.



  • Integrated with open-source and premium solar flux data streams

  • Upload your own irradiance data

  • Get project capacity and bankable energy yield estimates while designing

  • Full package of engineering documentation ready for your stakeholders

Solar irradiance calculator
AES
Aquila Capital
Nextera Energy
VSB
BayWa r.e.
Burns and McDonnell
Cepsa
Edify
Enel
Engie
Ferrovial
Hanwha
IGNIS
Jinko Solar
Lightsource bp
Celsia
Tenaga Nasional
Cubico
Naturgy
OX2
Shell
Siemens Energy
Tata Power
Total Eren
Voltalia
Sungrow
Doubling PV project development bandwidth with software
Lennin Piñeiro

Doubling PV project development bandwidth with software

«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

Automate your asset design and project optimization

Energy production estimates you and off-takers can trust

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

Open-source solar irradiance data streams


  • PVGIS


    • RatedPower is seamlessly integrated with PVGIS. It's a free database with information about solar radiation and PV system performance.



  • NASA


    • Pull meteorological and solar-related parameters directly from NASA POWER into RatedPower's platform. These open-source data sets are provided to assist in the design of solar-powered renewable energy systems.



Open-source solar irradiance data streams
Open-source solar irradiance data streams

Premium data streams


  • SolarAnywhere®


    • SolarAnywhere is an accurate global solar data partner for project developers, financiers, and operators. Use bankable-grade data depth and accuracy for your next solar project directly from RatedPower.



  • Solcast


    • Solcast offers solar resource assessment and forecasting data for irradiance and PV power. Built using a global fleet of weather satellites.



  • Solargis


    • Solargis is the energy industry’s trusted source for solar data, software, and expertise. Solargis data has helped develop 500+ GW of assets worldwide and is used for monitoring and forecasting solar power plants with a combined capacity of 100+ GW.



Solar flux calculator
Solar flux calculator

Use the built-in templates to import your own solar influx data

Drag and drop your .csv file with TMY data. RatedPower supports:



  • SolarGIS hourly and monthly

  • SolarAnywhere hourly

  • NREL TMY3 hourly

  • PVGIS5 hourly

  • Meteonorm hourly


If you have meteorological data from other sources, you can adapt your .csv to the available templates.

Insolation calculator
Insolation calculator

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Nicolás Fernández-Velilla

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
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Özer Ergul

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
RatedPower speed helps us boost our competitive advantage
Megan Parsons

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.»

Megan ParsonsChief Engineer at Blue Ridge Energy
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Saad Umer

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
EPCists expediting PV design and deliverables with solar software
Stefano Papale

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 PapaleHead of Business Development at FATA S.p.A.
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