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RatedPower
Enverus
RatedPower, part of Enverus, is an all-in-one software for designing utility-scale solar, BESS, and hybrid systems. It supports the full development cycle—from site selection to detailed engineering—enabling project developers, engineers, and analysts to work faster and more accurately. Users can assess land, locate optimal interconnection points, and design layouts using topographic and geospatial data. RatedPower also provides energy yield estimates, SLDs, and Gen-Tie reports that align with global standards. For BESS, it allows standalone or hybrid integration and helps evaluate feasibility through capacity optimization. Collaboration is easy thanks to exportable reports and layouts compatible with industry tools like PVsyst. With RatedPower, teams streamline project development while boosting accuracy and collaboration. -
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Zuper
Zuper
Get started for free and grow your business with digital booking, intelligence dispatching, and best-in-class reporting and analytics. Empower your customers with our best-in-class single window system for all their booking needs. Efficient management of the workforce at your fingertips. Dispatch the right team, to the right place, at the right time, with the right information. Get a 360-degree view of your business with our real-time insights on your KPIs. Make data-driven decisions a part of your business. Collaborates seamlessly with your field teams anytime, anywhere to deliver improved customer experience and rapid ROI with Zuper. Work orders are the core of field service operations. Zuper’s work order management feature provides everything you need to manage, monitor, and fulfill work orders, from work order creation and technician assignment to job execution and debriefing. Add checklist items to your work orders and associate with any status in a simple drag & drop style. -
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PVCAD
PVComplete
For solar designers who want the highest standard of precision and accuracy. PVCAD delivers unparalleled efficiency so you can finalize designs and quote jobs faster. Selecting design criteria from PVCAD’s integrated databases not only saves time but reduces the risk of costly errors and omissions. We are constantly growing our database of thousands of different inverters, modules, and racking partners. Users can also add their own equipment using the database button in the PVCAD ribbon. Would you like to have your equipment added to our database? PVCAD uses production modeling powered by PVWATTS created by NREL. Accurate 8760 data gives hour-by-hour production data over the course of the entire year. We use the most up-to-date weather data available with global coverage provided by Meteonorm. Lastly, modeling in AutoCAD allows for the most precise system measurements available with any drafting software. With valuable resources at arm’s reach, designers can achieve expert results.Starting Price: $180 per month -
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SolarEdge Designer
SolarEdge
SolarEdge Designer is a free web-based platform that helps solar professionals like yourself lower PV design costs and generate winning customer proposals. plan, build and validate your SolarEdge residential and commercial systems from inception to installation with this powerful selling tool that can help you close more deals. Streamlined design process featuring many automatic procedures such as stringing, instant design validation, multiple obstacle detection and bulk Power Optimizer barcode mapping. Seamless export of the site layout to the SolarEdge Monitoring Platform. Offer compelling customer proposals with comprehensive reports and accurate energy simulations, independently evaluated by DNV GL. Leverage detailed financial analysis capabilities to accurately forecast system owners’ electricity bill savings and ROI. Impress your customers with a visually attractive 3D simulation of their site. -
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PVCAD Mega
PVComplete
Quickly complete site capacity layouts for utility-scale projects of any size using click-and-drag control and place tracker blocks at any angle within the project site. Perform more accurate site assessments in less time by analyzing all piers, verifying that trackers can be deployed to specification. Eliminate guesswork and see how modifying structural and electrical components affect system design and performance estimates. Generate automatic pier plans with pier locations, corresponding surface altitude, and top-of-pile reports for leading tracker systems, including Nextracker and Array Technologies. Automatically generate a PVSyst shade scene (.SHD) file. Also generates a project file (.PRJ) and meteo file (.MET). Open the files in PVSyst to model the energy yield including topography effects. Easily export your design to PVSyst for bankable energy yield modelling.Starting Price: $295 per month -
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Solargraf
Solargraf
Create detailed roles & permissions for everyone on your staff. From account owner to sales and even accounting, give everyone on your team custom access to the portions of the software they need and nothing they don’t. View all of your active projects whether new, in progress, or closed on a handy dashboard. Make sure nothing falls through the cracks with a live, bird’s eye view of everything happening in your account. Customize your proposals with your company color scheme, reorder or remove proposal sections, and add your logo and cover image to give your quotes a personal flair. Use our good, better, best feature to offer multiple product and pricing options to your clients on a single proposal for them to e-sign on the quote they like best. Get everything you need to apply for your permits and engage the homeowner like never before remotely by using our virtual site assessment feature.Starting Price: $229 per month -
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Sighten
Sighten
Sighten exists to support the people selling, financing, and installing solar every day. That’s why we love hearing about our customers growing faster or operating more efficiently because of Sighten design, proposal, and sales software. Grow your channel with the only solar software that has a dedicated solution for channel managers and multi-state teams. You’ll be able to see your entire deal pipeline in the same place and easily communicate with partners. Trying to operate without good software will leave you disorganized and will ultimately limit your reach and revenue. You’ll face obstacles with deal visibility, partner communication, and introducing financing to your channel unless you have a seamless platform.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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PVcase
PVcase
PVcase Ground Mount is AutoCAD-based solar design software for utility-scale solar power plants. It enables solar engineers to reduce project costs, boost reliability and improve solar plant performance. Reduce project uncertainty and remove design errors with realistic, terrain-based PV layouts. CAPEX can make or break great solar designs. Get a clear breakdown of your project costs early on. Optimize your design and evaluate potential near-shading challenges. Own your electrical design by streamlining string mapping, device placement and cabling. Download and easily share cable runs, piling lengths, and other cost estimations with your team. Export your PV design in a bespoke format, co-designed with PVsyst. -
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Solar Pro
Laplace Systems
Simulation including the shadow influence by surrounding buildings and objects allows users to check optimal settings and module designs before system installation. The software calculates the I-V curve of solar modules accurately and quickly based on the electric characteristics of each manufacturer's product. The software calculates the amount of generated electricity based on the latitudes, longitudes, and weather conditions of the installation site. This leads to precise simulation results. The software determines the necessary components for installing PV system automatically based on the settings. Supports power generation simulation using half-cell modules. In addition, half-cell solar cells can be registered in the solar cell module database. -
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GeoT*SOL
Valentin Software
With GeoT*SOL you can simulate the heat pump system to the minute in order to determine annual performance figures (COP) and contribution margins. The systems can have other heat generators such as gas condensing boilers and solar systems. Movovalent, monoenergetic and bivalent modes of operation can be selected for operation. The annual performance factor according to VDI 4650 is an important factor for comparing plants according to their efficiency. It forms the basis for many funding measures and approval procedures. GeoT*SOL calculates the profitability according to the recommendation of the Federal Association of the Solar Industry (BSW) taking into account the funding: comparison of the costs of the heat pump system with a comparison system; capital value and production costs (heat price); modified internal rate of return (MIRR), profit taking into account the reinvestment. -
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Solar eCRM
Solar eCRM
Solar eCRM, enterprise-wide Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for the solar industry. Cloud-based online system allowing for a fully automated business process. Leaving you to focus on growth and profitability. With a quick and easy setup, you will have the ability to automate your day-to-day solar business activities with this powerful and versatile system. Have greater control over your leads with all the information you need within your grasp. Never miss out on a lead opportunity. Create accurate, comprehensive quotes and send them to clients instantly. Provide solar benefit analyses for the customer. Encompass all costs. Orders processed without losing track of customer, site, installer and product requirements. Track margins with standard pricing for sales orders. Compiled job packs for installers to minimise installation issues. Lodge and track STC claims. Connection and rebate forms to close the loop between installers and customers.Starting Price: $69 per user per month -
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SolarDesignTool
SolarDesignTool
Create a preliminary design by specifying the module and inverter configuration and the layout. Upgrade the design to a permit-ready design by completing a quick 4-step wizard. Define the installation site using aerial imagery or an imported 3D model from EagleView or RoofOrders. With SolarDesignTool, you can create a PV system design and generate a solar permit package in as little as 15 minutes. A permit package includes the following pages: project summary, site plan, single-line diagram, PV safety labels, attachment plan(s), attachment details for supported racking systems, fire safety plan, equipment datasheets, and certifications. After completing a PV system design, generating a solar permit package is as simple as clicking a single button. A PV permit package for a typical residential sloped rooftop using a popular racking system will include all of the pages listed above.Starting Price: $50 per user per month -
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FutrOS
FutrOS
Futr Energy offers an operating-system-style platform dubbed FutrOS, which serves as a single “source of truth” for clean-energy asset management, enabling developers, operators, and investors to monitor, manage, and optimize generation performance across their portfolios. Key functionalities include real-time remote monitoring, digital twin modelling of assets, a connected CMMS (computerized maintenance-management system) workflow with asset inventory/spares tracking, automated reporting and alerts, drone thermography, and specialized features such as soiling-loss-based module-cleaning automation and warranty-claim tracking. It is hardware-agnostic and designed to integrate with multiple external systems, in cables and sensors, enabling holistic visibility of performance ratio, grid availability, spare inventory status, and preventive maintenance schedules. -
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Solcast
Solcast
Solcast is a cloud-based solar and weather data software built to provide high-resolution, bankable historical, live, and forecast solar irradiance, weather, and photovoltaic (PV) power data for renewable energy applications, delivered through a scalable REST API and developer tools. It tracks real-time satellite cloud cover and blends that with advanced weather models to deliver solar irradiance forecasts from five minutes up to 14 days ahead with high spatial and temporal resolution, and also supplies historical time series from 2007 to seven days ago for performance analysis. Solcast supports multiple PV power forecast models (Rooftop PV, Advanced PV, and Premium PV) that estimate actuals and future output for solar assets of any scale, and its API returns data in JSON or CSV formats suitable for integration into energy software, analytics platforms, or custom workflows. Developers can access this data using native HTTP clients or SDKs (such as Python and C#) with code examples. -
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SolarLogics
Logics CRM
CRM for solar companies. Streamline your sales process from lead management and technical and financial assessment to proposal preparation, e-signing, and billing. Solar Logics comes with a built-in solar panel system size and cost calculator. We understand that different solar installers use different methods for calculating the system size. That's why Solar Logics allows you to enter your own technical, geographical, and constructional constraints into the calculator. No matter how many lenders you work with and what states your clients are at, Solar Logics allows you to enter loan and incentive details and uses those figures to estimate the short and long-term savings in the proposal document. Solar Logics generates solar energy system proposals based on the results of the calculators. Your proposal includes the charts and tables indicating electricity bill before and after solar installation, savings and incentives, projected payback period, and loan repayment plan breakdown.Starting Price: $45.00/month/user -
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PV-DesignPro
Maui Solar Energy Software
Standalone Photovoltaic system design and analysis tool. Hourly simulation, uses hourly climate files (239 U.S. locations included). Sandia Labs PV Model. Enhanced version of PV-DesignPro-S developed in cooperation with Sandia National Labs Photovoltaic Systems Department. PV-DesignPro v6.0 is a suite of Windows 95, 98, NT, Win2000, and Vista compatible software designed to simulate photovoltaic energy system operation on an hourly basis for one year, based on a user-selected climate and system design. Three versions of the PV-DesignPro program are included on the Solar Design Studio CD-ROM: "PV-DesignPro-S" for standalone systems with battery storage, "PV-DesignPro-G" for grid-connected systems with no battery storage, and "PV-DesignPro-P" for water pumping systems. Below is a screenshot of the "S" version of PV-DesignPro. The purpose of the programs are to aid in photovoltaic system design by providing accurate and in-depth information on likely system power output. -
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HOMER Energy
HOMER Energy
All HOMER software is built on the trusted, market-leading HOMER platform, used by more than 250,000 system designers and developers in over 190 countries. With decades of experience, we provide the most robust, accurate solutions to help make hybrid power systems technically optimal and maximally cost-effective. Explore which product is most suited for your project, or further understand our approach to techno-economic analysis. Watch the video, download the white paper, or talk to an expert to explore how UL advisory professionals can help. If you need help with your modeling and analysis, or need training in HOMER software, we are here to help. We offer a full range of support services to ensure your success. UL advisory services enable you to leverage our long-standing expertise in renewable energy and qualifications as independent engineers. We offer full project support from feasibility studies, to design and certification. -
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BluePoint
3megawatt GmbH
Your fastest path to efficient wind and solar asset management. Discover the leading solar and wind software that helps manage 35 GW in 40 countries. Work smarter, faster and simpler. One centralized place for all your project data Collect and store data for your projects, locations, portfolios, project companies, components, spare parts, contracts and compliance in one central location. Audit trails ensure that you can trust your data. Integration of technical and financial data. Synchronize technical data from your monitoring systems, utility meter data, weather data, market rates and financial data from your ERP solutions to ensure that projects information always remains up-to-date. Automate. Streamline your routine tasks with automation. Create automated energy invoices, shadow settlements, work orders and monthly and quarterly reports. Reduce the risk of human error with controlled workflows. Better communication between team members. -
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PV Designer
Solmetric
PV Designer software is ideal for residential and small commercial systems. It enables you to quickly and easily: draw a roof outline, specify set-backs and keep-out regions, incorporate SunEye shade measurements at specific locations on the roof, drag-and-drop modules, size strings, check inverter limits, and calculate the AC energy production for your system. It includes extensive worldwide databases of modules, inverters, and historical weather. You can easily try different design scenarios and compare their AC kW-hr outputs side-by-side to identify the best design. PV Designer is the design tool of choice for designing systems of around 15 kW or less, however larger systems up to 100kW can also be designed in PV Designer. The software is easy to learn and easy to use, yet enables detailed analysis traditionally only available in complicated engineering tools. -
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Scanifly
Scanifly
98% of solar professionals conduct a technical onsite survey before construction; over 50% do so before closing a sale. With current methods, solar companies still spend hours using ladders and hand-measuring rooftops, which slows down pipelines, hurts accuracy, and increases safety risks. Scanifly’s solar design software uses drone technology and 3D modeling tools to eliminate roof climbs, decrease onsite time by up to 90%, and increase design accuracy to avoid redesigns, change orders, or delays on install day. Ladders, tape measures, handwritten notes, and handheld shading equipment can lead to inaccuracies, errors, and guesswork. Drones and 3D modeling software streamline the process while improving time, safety, and design accuracy. Take pictures with your drone (JPEGs) to digitize the project's characteristics. Automatically create to-scale 3D models of proposed sites. -
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PVsyst
PVsyst
PVsyst is designed to be used by architects, engineers, and researchers. It is also a very useful educative tool. It includes a detailed contextual Help menu that explains the procedures and models that are used, and offers a user-friendly approach with a guide to develop a project. PVsyst is able to import meteo data, as well as personal data from many different sources. For the inverter sizing: the second graph displays the annual distribution of the array power, with the array and inverter nominal power. Storage in a grid system is a complex feature, as it may have different objectives, which lead to different strategies and different PV system configurations. -
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OpenSolar
OpenSolar
The fastest, simplest and most accurate 3D design tool available, making your proposals reliable and bankable from the office and in the field. Fully customizable, interactive proposals online or as a PDF. 24% sale conversion drawn from experience selling 10,000's of systems, face-to-face and over the phone. Effortless selection and integration of your chosen finance providers with in-app real-time approvals, making selling easier than ever. Built-in CRM, digital scheduling, real-time customer alerts, hardware catalogs, on-demand permitting and e-signatures. Integrate your existing CRM and business tools with our class-leading platform. Work the way you want to work. Fully customizable, interactive proposals online or as a PDF. 24% sale conversion drawn from experience selling 10,000's of systems, face-to-face and over the phone. Effortless selection and integration of your chosen finance providers with in-app real-time approvals, making selling easier than ever. -
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SolarNexus
SolarNexus
The clock is always ticking in solar contracting. The tools you adopt for sales, project design and fulfillment can make or break a business. The SolarNexus software solution helps contractors operate efficiently at scale. Solar contracting is a relay race. Every project is a fast-paced series of steps. Remain profitable as you grow with clean handoffs and a smooth process workflow. We provide a full suite of sales and operations tools backed by professional services that give contractors the opportunity to scale their solar business. Our operational expertise in solar contracting and enterprise software lets us find and resolve inefficiencies invisible to other people and programs. -
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System Advisor Model (SAM)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Photovoltaic systems, from small residential rooftops to large utility-scale systems. Concentrating Solar Power systems for electric power generation, including parabolic trough, power tower, and linear Fresnel. Power purchase agreement (PPA) projects where the system is connected to the grid at an interconnection point, and the project earns revenue through power sales. The project may be owned and operated by a single owner or by a partnership involving a flip or leaseback arrangement. Third-party ownership is where the system is installed on the customer's (host) property and owned by a separate entity (developer), and the host is compensated for power generated by the system through either a PPA or lease agreement. -
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BlueSol
BlueSol
BlueSol is a software for the design of photovoltaic systems in every country in the world. It allows you to perform the entire process of designing a PV system, from the preliminary assessment of producibility to the realization of the project documentation. BlueSol is a product made with a standard Microsoft interface, very easy to use but at the same time manages every detail of the PV system. Automatic and optimized insertion of strings, inverters, panels, batteries, and cables. Calculation of map of the distribution of radiations on areas. Exporting system layout to DWG and to the image. Interactive design over internet map and 3D view. Automatic insertion of inverters, panels, batteries, and connecting cables. BlueSol is available in a single installation and in different languages. Automatic and optimized insertion of strings, inverters, panels, batteries and cables. -
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PV F-CHART
F-Chart Software
PV F-CHART is a comprehensive photovoltaic system analysis and design program. The program provides monthly-average performance estimates for each hour of the day. The calculations are based upon methods developed at the University of Wisconsin which use solar radiation utilize ability to account for the statistical variation of radiation and the load. We provide weather data for over 300 locations, weather data can be added, hourly load profiles for each month, statistical load variation, time-of-day rates for buy/sell, life-cycle economics with cash flow and monthly parameter variation. -
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T*SOL
Valentin Software
T*SOL is the simulation program with which you can calculate the yield of a thermal solar system. No matter whether for domestic water heating, heating support, swimming pools or process heat, with T*SOL you can optimally design your planned solar thermal system, dimension storage and collector arrays (also east / west roofs) and determine the economic efficiency. At the start of the design process, you have a large selection of all relevant systems for domestic hot water heating and heating support, as well as for swimming pools and process heat. During the design, you will be supported with dimensioning suggestions and can use a parameter variation to find the optimal combination, e.g. of storage size and collector area. The parameters of the simulation results such as energies, temperatures or volumes can be displayed graphically. You can choose between different display formats such as bar charts and line graphs. The time axis can be varied between a day and up to a year. -
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Enerflo
Enerflo
Enerflo creates efficiencies from lead to PTO to grow your solar business. As a true open platform, we invite you to bring your favorite tools and let Enerflo connect them all together. Trust your tech with us, and we’ll blow your mind. Enerflo Sales Core gives your reps the most unified solar sales process in the industry. One platform, one login, one seamless experience across the entire solar customer journey. Throw your most difficult contracting scenarios our way and we’ll amaze you with accurate, real-time contract building, integrated interconnection documents, secured signing, and more. Built specifically for the solar industry, other signing solutions simply can’t compete. With Enerflo’s integrated lending, sales reps no longer juggle multiple logins for solar finance portals. Our deep integrations with the industry's top lenders make quoting, applying, approving and signing seamless for all. -
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SolarPlus
SolarPlus
SolarPlus is a complete solar design software platform to win you more happy solar customers, save you time, and maximize your profits. Focus your energy to its best use – leading your team, closing deals and bring all of your essential solar installation admin tasks into one easy management platform. SolarPlus V4 brings you the future of energy modeling the only way to see a complete generation, demands and grid interaction. Reduce the compliance load – SolarPlus aids in standard-compliant PV design and generation of handover documentation. RoofMap, our new panel layout tool offers unparalleled visualization and layout control and flexibility. Select from common tariff options or create a tariff to match your customers’ billing preferences. Even compare current and new tariff recommendations. Tariff structure includes single or time-of-use options as well as block pricing and maximum demand options.Starting Price: $2 per prospect -
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Solar-Log
Solar-Log
Solar-Log GmbH is a pioneer and one of the leading companies in the areas of PV monitoring, smart energy, and feed-in management with global service for power and heating. Its Solar-Log™ product line – developed and produced in-house – along with the Solar-Log WEB Enerest™ online portal solution stand for manufacture-independent, professional monitoring and management of PV plants worldwide. Solar-Log™ is compatible with more than 200 components – making it an unrivaled energy management system for renewable energy. Solar-Log™ naturally offers installers, wholesalers, investors and end customers extensive services and support. With Solar-Log™, Solar-Log GmbH is setting new international standards when it comes to monitoring and managing photovoltaic plants. For years, Solar-Log GmbH has been a driving force for the innovation of software and devices for monitoring and managing photovoltaic plants.
