PV plant design and engineering from siting to offtake

Solar software for utility-scale plants

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80% of PV projects never become commercial operations. Lack of efficiency has become an existential risk for solar developers. Our solar PV and storage software delivers the efficiency your company needs to maximize returns and pipeline —and minimize risk and LCOE.

Solar design software
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Solar Design Software ROI Calculator

Calculate your ROI from solar, storage and hybrid software

We partnered with Enverus to help utility-scale developers, IPPs, and EPCs uncover just how much ROI they could unlock by implementing solar, storage, and hybrid design software—before their next project even breaks ground.

Automate your asset design and project optimization

Increase your solar asset profitability by 20% and reduce LCOE with our PV system design software

Unlock the potential and boost productivity of your development and engineering teams across the entire PV, hybrid and standalone storage project lifecycle stage.

Solar Site Analysis

Comprehensive site analysis

  • Find buildable sites with built-in geospatial analytics
    Use hundreds of geo datasets for power infrastructure, project queues and energy pricing to refine your filters. Get ownership contact details in favorable areas for your power asset.
  • Understand basis risk
    Evaluate and decompose locational marginal prices and identify the most suitable points of interconnection.
  • Topography and cut-and-fill analysis
    Upload your own topography data and perform cut-and-fill analysis. Quickly identify how terrain affects your layout.
PV modeling

Quickly model the preliminary design

  • Energy production estimates
    Get bankable energy yield estimates while designing your PV system.
  • Streamlined interconnection engineering
    Size the facility according to global interconnection standards. Download comprehensive SLD and Gen-Tie reports.
  • Add storage to your solar plant
    Hybridize your solar plant with a battery energy storage system or design a separate standalone BESS. Optimize capacity and download essential engineering documentation for feasibility studies.
solar quoting software

Get the detailed design and quote your project accurately

  • Fine-tune your project
    Easily find the best PV system design by bulk simulation or manually fine tunning the automated layout. Optimize it through pitch distance and DC/AC ratio.
  • Compare your plant simulations
    Order designs by key metrics that matter to you the most, such as energy production, cost, GCR, or equipment.
  • Handoff to peers or off-takers
    Download editable reports, drawings, and 3D shading scenes ready to use in PVsyst. Incorporate your teammates at later stages of the project lifecycle.

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Thousands of professionals choose to work with our solar software

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

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

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
Philip Manns

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

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

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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Shazim Chhapra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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 YuNew Business Manager, International 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 UmerBusiness Development Director, Solar PV 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 GerstchConstruction, Engineering and Grid Director at Iberdrola
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Iberdrola

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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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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PV site analysis tool

Selecting the right plot of land and mitigating project risks involves considering numerous factors such as interconnection capacity, pricing trends, competition, land suitability, and future economic viability.

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Quick solar site analysis

Solar planning tool

Equip your development team with smart site assessment, project design, and optimization in a collaborative PV planner.

Solar planning tool
Solar Planning Tool

Solar modeling tool

Reduce risk to your PV project with easy-to-use advanced solar modeling software, increase ROI, and grow your business pipeline.

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Solar Modeling Tool

Battery energy storage system design

The future of utility-scale PV projects is hybrid. Design your BESS and optimize its capacity in one tool. Download basic engineering documents and format its layout in an instant.

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BESS Design

Solar proposal software

Slash feasibility assessment times, reduce site analysis costs and boost your PV asset profitability.

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Quote projects with accurate BoM, CAPEX and LCOE

Solar irradiance calculator

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.

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Solar Irradiance Calculator

Earthwork estimating software

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

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Earthwork Estimating Software

Substation engineering

Easily choose elements such as your facility interconnection type, overhead line type and grid requirements to achieve the highest rated power for your plant while also considering your grid operator, the utility, and the country where it is located

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Substation engineering tool

Detailed engineering ready for off-takers

Manually fine tune your automated design with real-time data on energy production, costs and more. Get the project detailed engineering ready for the off-taker.

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Solar CAD