PVDESIGN FOR PV ENGINEERING FIRMS

Supercharge your solar engineering

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.

Software for solar engineering firms
AES
Aquila Capital
VSB
BayWa r.e.
Burns and McDonnell
Cepsa
Edify
Enel
Engie
Ferrovial
Hanwha
IGNIS
Jinko Solar
Lightsource bp
Celsia
Cubico
Naturgy
OX2
Shell
Siemens Energy
Tata Power
Total Eren
Voltalia
Sungrow
FLEXIBILITY AT ITS CORE

Meet and exceed your client expectations

pvDesign helps engineering businesses getting their job done faster. It allows you and your team to handle to your clients 300+ 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, pvDesign software helps speeding up time-to-design and reduce LCOE. Algorithms and set of adjustable variables maximize energy production and minimize construction costs.

The bigger, the better

The bigger, the better

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

Head-to-toe

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.

Ready player one

Ready player one

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

Substation engineering

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.

Lives in the cloud

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.

Tailored for solar PV

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

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.
Simplify your interconnection process

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.
Hybridize your plant with BESS

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.
Find the best electrical configuration

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.
Prospect sites efficiently

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.
Perform cut-and-fill cost-benefit analyses

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.

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.

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.



  • pvDesign 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.

Lighting fast layout
Lighting fast layout

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.

Long-range energy yield
Long-range energy yield

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.

PV CAPEX at a glance
PV CAPEX at a glance

Detailed engineering, powered by algorithms

Once your design is fully optimized, pvDesign 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

Detailed PV engineering software
Detailed PV engineering software

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.

Technical and financial documentation
Technical and financial documentation

Join 400+ engineering firms serving top-tier renewables companies

Discover how the independent power producer ABEI Energy speed up engineering works.

Read success story
Software for solar players

RatedPower's pvDesign helps us performing preliminary and advanced layouts. Now we perform site analysis in record time.

Antonio Verdugo

Technical engineer
Software for solar players

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  • 10 projects

  • Unlimited Designs

  • Unlimited Users

  • Downloadable detailed documentation in 5 languages

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  • Unlimited Designs

  • Unlimited Users

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  • Unlimited Projects

  • Unlimited Designs

  • Unlimited Users

  • Downloadable detailed documentation in 5 languages

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  • Designated Customer success teams with unlimited training sessions

  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) settings

  • SAML access with your corporate identity provider

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