RatedPower for developers

PV plant prospecting at the speed of light
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Does it frustrate you—or your manager—that your time is terribly wasted on manually optimizing PV plants designs and calculating energy yields? How many apps do you use for gathering PV plant project's documents to apply for permits? How many engineering hours do you need to prospect a site?

Software for solar developers
Tight solar LCOE by maximising energy production

Craft is for pottery

Lack of highly specialised software leads your engineering team to work across a variety of non-integrated apps. Such as CAD software and its plethora of not-so-updated plugins, legacy software or your favourite spreadsheet app.

Imagine your engineering team scouting plots of land at 2X higher velocity. There is a better way to keep LCOE low by maximizing energy production in your designs. There is a better way to grow your project pipeline through software.

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Head-to-toe

Start with a land file and get a comprehensive engineering docs pack without jumping up and down between apps. From layout or electrical reports to energy yield and LCOE. Ready to your off-taker.

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Substation engineering

Automatically design the basic engineering of the step-up substation of your PV plant. Get a complete SLD and a fully detailed report based on your inputs.

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DIY

Empower your engineering teams to carry out feasibility analysis and plant designs. Avoid outsourcing these tasks and save money.

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Sharing is caring

Stop emailing project files with colleagues and mess it up with document versions. Access, clone, iterate, and compare site projects across the entire organization. All plans include unlimited seats.

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Lives in the cloud

Say bye to manually updating your plugins. Our development team deploys new features twice a week. And you get them in no time. Just logging in your favourite browser.

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Tailored for solar PV (solutions)

By gathering accurate irradiance data, the LCOE for your ground-mounted PV project is solid.

From a kml file to your PV plant technical docs pack in 8 easy steps

The design interface guides you through the steps to get your plant proposal documents. Rely on algorithmic calculations or fine-tune their results to get your desired outcome.

Optimize land use

Find the best civil configuration to make the most of your acreage. Define your site and upload your topography —including cut-and-fill. Optimize your project by either maximizing or setting a specific capacity. Iterate your layout by adjusting the pitch distance or AC/DC ratio and setting power station location and setbacks.
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Optimize land use

Prospect sites efficiently

Easily clone your PV plant designs and add, remove, or edit parcels within the project. Change any equipment—such as modules, inverters, or racking systems. Analyse prices, LCOE, energy production, and more. Prepare the project documentation ready for later stages.
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Prospect sites efficiently

Find the optimal layout with GCR, tilt and DC/AC ratio iterations

Easily edit those parameters for each design iteration of your plant. Use the powerful batch design to create up to ten simulations simultaneously with slight variations in GCR or DC/AC ratios. Compare them to find your optimal project layout.
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Find the optimal PV plant layout with GCR and DC/AC ratio iterations

Simplify your interconnection process

Design your substation or switching and breaking station by picking your preferred electrical standard using a range of available parameters. Manually choose the type or size of the power transformer, the whole gen tie layout and set losses at substation transformer level.
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Simplify your interconnection process

Quote projects with accurate BoM, CAPEX, and LCOE

Define the year of your project simulation to calculate output according to standard deviation. Upload horizon and albedo and set advanced parameters for losses. Use the built-in CAPEX templates or upload templates used by your company’s financial team. Create a BoM, and a comprehensive financial analysis of your plant ready to hand over to your off-taker.
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Quote projects with accurate BoM, CAPEX and LCOE

Determine project capacity and energy yield

Each tweak in your plant design will be reflected in the rated power, peak power, DC/AC ratio, or BESS-related results. Analyze the energy production estimates over time. Get energy yield results, design reports, and losses. Iterate your design based on the results of these data points until your project is optimized.
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Get project capacity and energy yield

Build a stronger project pipeline. Speed up your prospecting efforts.

Not ready to buy just yet? No problem. Take a free product tour and discover our solar software at your own pace.
Fast hybrid PV and storage layout

Lightning fast layout

Get a new design from scratch in minutes —including required earthworks. Or clone an existing one and compare them in a matter of three clics.

  • RatedPower calculates the volume of earthworks required to install a structure
  • It works along with the topography analysis to achieve better compliance with the terrain.
  • Get accurate energy yielding and cost estimates.
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PV site prospecting

All your location data in a tab

Use our built-in topography, meteorological, horizon and albedo profile data streams to enhance your designs. Upload your own for a much more tailored simulation.

  • Google Earth for topography
  • NASA SSE for meteorological data
  • PVGIS 5 for horizon and meteo
  • MODIS for albedo profiling
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Compare equipment performance

Long-range energy yield

Get up to 50 years of energy yield of your plant design using your meteorological, horizon and albedo data. Or use our out-of-the-box data sources.

  • PVGIS 5, NASA Power and SSE sources included.
  • Input PV module and PV plant losses and understand how it impact energy yield.
  • Choose your preferred IAM loss model for PV modules.
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Create professional editable proposals for stakeholders

The first paperwork you'll love

Download a whole pack of engineering documentation for your project. Including BoQ, design drawings, list of cables or electrical diagrams. Ready to cast to your off-taker or EPCist.

  • Design, energy yield and interconnection facility reports.
  • Project sheet, bill of quantities, listing of cables in spreadsheet format.
  • SLDs and 3D facility layout ready to import to PVsyst or your CAD software.
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Join hundreds top-tier solar developers prospecting faster

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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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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Plans built for businesses of all sizes

Essentials

  • 10 projects
  • Unlimited designs
  • Downloadable detailed documentation in 8 languages
  • Email support
  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) settings

Professional

  • Up to 50 projects per year
  • Unlimited designs
  • Downloadable detailed documentation in 8 languages
  • Basic support
  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) settings
  • 1 dedicated onboarding session

Enterprise

  • Unlimited projects
  • Unlimited designs
  • Downloadable detailed documentation in 8 languages
  • Priority support
  • 1 dedicated onboarding session
  • Designated Customer Success manager
  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) settings
  • SAML access with your corporate identity provider

We've got you covered

If your team is doing the plot scouting manually, bets are your company is leaving money on the table. Reducing time-to-design and increasing efficiency of engineering teams are the most outstanding outcomes for development firms using RatedPower's platform.

While business as usual routine for prospecting takes weeks —It's not only about getting electrical setup or the basic engineering, also SLDs and calculating energy yield and CAPEX. After adopting this software, this cycle is shortened to minutes.

Our business development team will arrange with you a call to fully understand your needs and customize an in-depth demo. After green light on contract, your team will be fully onboarded on the second week.

The resource investment from your side pays off. RatedPower's platform will save tons of hours to your team quoting new PV projects and creating the engineering documentation you need for tendering.

Do you outsource part of the design project? Are you thinking about increasing project pipeline? RatedPower allows you to double prospecting capability, without spending more on third-party services or hiring new headcount.

Additionally, unlikely traditional engineering workflows or desktop software, each PV plant design comes with 400+ pages of technical documentation ready for your off-taker.