RatedPower for PV engineering firms

Supercharge your solar engineering
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Orders from clients are urgent most of the times. Teams might be overwhelmed by carrying out basic, detailed engineering plus yielding before the end of the day. Just as your client repeated 10 times in the email thread of the PV project.

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Software for solar engineering firms
Flexibility at its core

Meet and exceed your client expectations

RatedPower helps engineering businesses getting their job done faster. It allows you and your team to handle to your clients +400 pages of technical documentation and a rock solid energy yield in minutes.

Either if your task is prospecting new sites or fulfilling basic or detailed engineering, RatedPower's platform helps speeding up time-to-design and reduce LCOE. Algorithms and set of adjustable variables maximize energy production and minimize construction costs.

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The bigger, the better

Unlike one-size-fits-all apps, RatedPower's algorithms are coded for you to get a highly accurate outcome for 1+MW ground mounted PV plants.

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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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Ready player one

Tying software to your computer is so 1999. Unlike desktop apps, RatedPower plans are packed with unlimited users. Just use your corporate employee directory or send invites to your teammates.

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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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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

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

From a plot of land to your client's yielding in a bliss

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.

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

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

Hybridize your plant with BESS

Add AC-coupled BESS to new or existing PV plant projects. Pick the storage inverter and the number of inverters per PCS. Select maximum or a specific capaicty. Define the supply cycle duration, and the dimensions of PCS, containers and distances between blocks. Download the BESS design report, layout or SLD.
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Hybridize your plant with BESS

Find the best electrical configuration

Iterate the electrical configuration of your project. Group the string in pitch or axial direction. Pick the design of your solar field— with either a string box or a DC bus system. Define the cable standard and use a range of parameters for each cable type. Compare each electrical setup and create the project documentation.
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Find the best electrical configuration

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

Perform cut-and-fill cost-benefit analyses

Use Google Earth or your own topography data within your design. Define installation limits for your racking so they’re excluded from your layout and apply earthworks where necessary. Use the BoQ to determine the total cut-and-fill volume and make confident data-driven decisions.
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Perform cut-and-fill cost-benefit analyses

Serve customers better at scale

Not ready to buy just yet? No problem. Take a free product tour and discover our solar software at your own pace.
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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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Proposals that make it into the queue

PV CAPEX at a glance

Use the default cost templates or customise them to get a CAPEX and LCOE analysis of your PV project in seconds. Just input the unit price. The hassle of finding the number of required equipment is on us.

  • Adapt costs categories to fit your clients requests.
  • Input OPEX and effortlessly get CAPEX in your currency.
  • Download your custom CAPEX analysis in an editable spreadsheet.
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Solar proposal software

Detailed engineering, powered by algorithms

Once your design is fully optimized, RatedPower delivers a handful of documents of PV detailed engineering. Including single line diagrams (SLD) for the interconnection facility. Both in PDF and editable formats.

  • 3D layout and terrain slopes
  • SLD for medium, low and medium-low voltage.
  • Structure profiles
  • Substation layout and SLD
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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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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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Join hundreds engineering firms serving top-tier renewables companies

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

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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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

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

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

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Check how other development and engineering teams are leveraging software to increase ROI and mitigate risks of their utility-scale solar assets.

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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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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

Questions? 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 will save tons of hours to your team quoting new PV projects and creating the engineering documentation you need for tendering.

Are you thinking about increasing project pipeline? RatedPower allows you to double prospecting and quoting capability, without 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.