What follows are the Top Solar Software and Monitoring Products for 2021. From designing solar arrays to managing O&M, there are a number of products to choose from. Take a look at this year’s innovative products (listed alphabetically by company) within the categories of software and monitoring systems.
See the full list of the 2021 Top Solar Products here.
PowerTrack is a vertically integrated, cloud-based renewable energy portfolio management platform that empowers stakeholders throughout the value chain to efficiently and effectively control, monitor, manage and monetize renewable energy assets at scale. It offers high-definition visualization with granular real-time data, analytics and actionable insights to maximize asset and financial performance.
PWRmanager is an innovative solar energy-optimization product that enables homeowners to run their entire home on stored sunshine in the battery without making lifestyle compromises. PWRmanager gives homeowners total flexibility by allowing them to use their phone to “swipe” off/on circuits and extend battery runtime by de-energizing less important circuits.
Successful asset management requires more than monitoring; having control to restore faults and protect your generation yields is paramount. myPV IQ gives you control to respond across your portfolio and provides visualizations that inform decisions in real-time. One platform that meets your business and operating needs while maximizing benefits.
TrueCapture’s Split Boost takes full advantage of half-cell module advancements. As a product feature of Nextracker’s signature TrueCapture optimization software, Split Boost ensures energy gain by aiming to completely avoid tracker inter-row shading on flat as well as undulating terrain. Just released, the Split Boost tracking algorithm ensures maximum gain on split-cell modules.
An advanced software-as-a-service platform for the entire solar lifecycle — from financing and construction through operations. Powered by our industry-leading data model, Raptor Solar lets you optimize your PV assets, standardize data, analyze insights and collaborate. Strengthen asset efficiency, boost staff effectiveness and ultimately lift financial return.
GridManager is an energy dashboard unlike any other. This cloud-based dashboard focuses on controlling the quality of peak load demand instead of how much energy is being used — which saves money and equipment wear and tear. The dashboard tracks any metric the client wishes and reports those statistics in real-time.
The SparkCognition Renewables Suite is an AI-powered asset performance management solution for solar, wind, hydro and energy storage assets. The Renewables Suite leverages SparkCognition’s deep renewable energy industry expertise, coded into industry-leading AI software, and allows customers to increase energy production, reduce maintenance costs and improve operations efficiency.
3D site modeling can be error-prone and time-consuming. With Aurora’s LIDAR shading, you can create an accurate 3D site model on the first try, every time. It also allows you to expedite the design process by automatically accounting for shading from trees and neighboring structures in the irradiance map and performance simulation.
Energy Toolbase is a software platform that provides a cohesive suite of project modeling, storage control, and asset monitoring products that enable solar and storage developers to deploy projects seamlessly and efficiently. Explore how the ETB Developer modeling platform, Acumen EMS controls and ETB Monitor asset monitoring platform can enhance your project workflow.
The solar permitting process is tedious, confusing and long. It can slow down projects and cause barriers for solar installers. GreenLancer is an online marketplace where installers can shop permit design and engineering needs from a network of certified fulfillment partners with fast turnaround and streamlined communication.
The leading drone solution for automating solar site surveys — your design process just got a whole lot easier.
AutoCAD-based solar design software for utility-scale solar power plants. It enables solar engineers to reduce project costs, boost reliability and overcome site-specific challenges upfront. Achieve shade-free table layout on undulating terrain, reduce design errors by working in a 3D environment and get a clear view of CAPEX costs.
Fast, easy solar design in under two minutes, with hi-res imagery included, for $0 monthly fees.
Scanifly’s drone-based solar software allows solar contractors to automatically create perfect designs in seconds. These include module placement, keep outs, fire setbacks and bankable shading analysis, all exportable to AutoCAD, SketchUp and PVSyst. Contractors can also plant or cut down trees to fine-tune their production estimates.
In 90 seconds, Transect identifies the required regulations and permits relevant to environmental risks for land development initiatives. With solar site-specific information about protected species, cultural resources, slope, soils and other constraints, developers can anticipate permitting roadblocks before they become costly expenses or completely stop the project.
PV*SOL premium 2022 with 3D visualization and detailed shading analysis helps system designers and installers to professionally design and simulate solar electric systems. The project report has been further improved, and PAN file import and new climate data sources are available, in addition to Meteonorm 8. 64-bit architecture ensures better performance.
Quickly and easily create permit-ready residential solar designs for free. Instantly generate and download a ready-to-submit solar permit package for any AHJ.
Bodhi empowers residential solar installers to deliver amazing customer experiences without lifting a finger. Bodhi’s patented technology integrates across your operational tools (CRM, documents, field apps and monitoring) to automatically keep your customers informed and engaged, generating happier customers, less post-sale headaches and better reviews and referral rates.
With Sales Mode, you can now access Aurora, the industry’s most powerful 3D-design and sales tool, on the go with any tablet. This new product feature makes it even easier to close a sale on the first visit with Aurora’s seamless workflow and loaded features.
Solargraf generates comprehensive quotes in a few clicks while offering full remote sales capabilities and a robust list of features including shade reports, proposals with “good, better, best” options, financing and permits, making it a one-stop-shop for installers looking to speed up their workflow, while also managing the post-sale process.
We packaged the best solar sales practices into our software to do one thing: close more deals. Solo provides the industry’s fastest solar proposals and deal closure process on the market. Seamless integration with all of your favorite tools and docs lets you close without hiccups or delays.
The EnergySage Community Solar Marketplace brings much-needed transparency and simplicity to community solar. Enter your zip code to instantly find, compare and subscribe to local projects. It provides great value to developers as a cost-effective acquisition channel, and for utilities to help customers make informed decisions about renewable energy options.
The Ivy Virtual Grid software platform enables real estate owners to become onsite solar energy “hosts” by offering intelligent clean energy billing to its tenants. This is the first innovative billing solution that makes it possible for owners to generate a new income per unit while guaranteeing monthly savings to tenants.
Bodhi Fleet integrates across inverter and add-on monitoring systems to give solar installers a single view to efficiently manage their entire fleet of installed projects. Designed to minimize nuisance alerts, Bodhi Fleet allows a solar business to easily offer active monitoring services to start capturing recurring revenue from their existing customers.
The FlexOM communications and controls solution enables fast, efficient field service for CPS inverters. FlexOM-PP Performance Packages are offered by CPS with web portal data access to features such as data charting, monitoring alerts, remote resetting, kiosk view and more!
Mana provides O&M companies the soft tools needed to maintain and optimize the growing fleet of PV Systems. Mana integrates with virtually all meters and inverters to provide a central platform to track all PV systems with an integrated ticketing system standard with solar + load monitoring and more.
A modular interconnection solution that provides factory-tested remote management and reporting capabilities for performance engineering and witness testing activities when and where you need it most. Our turnkey solution simplifies installation and accelerates construction by eliminating delays associated with procurement, weather and costly overhead work — de-risking your project.
The WS50PV is an affordable, compact, all-in-one weather sensor measuring the most critical parameters for commercial and industrial PV monitoring.
Developers, EPC, IPP, utility and solar engineering firms can use RatedPower’s software to expedite design and engineering of their utility-scale PV plants. It’s a PV solar project management tool that helps reduce LCOE and increase ROI. The software delivers 300+ pages of technical documentation ready to handle.
Insight provides an intuitive mobile and web browser interface for solar professionals to easily access, monitor and manage multiple installation sites. Insight helps installers simplify solar and storage system configuration and offers powerful remote management features to reduce site visits by 50%.
SMA Smart Connected is a proactive inverter monitoring service developed for PV system owners and operators. If a service event arises, Smart Connected automatically identifies the cause and remediation actions. This allows installers to provide targeted customer service, saving valuable working time, cutting analysis costs and minimizing system downtime.
All project stakeholders lose money when plants malfunction. The loss can be due to poor performance or due to the time it takes to combat that loss. Solar-Log WEB Enerest 4 provides quick access to performance details in fewer clicks and on a single page. Issues can often be fixed remotely, reducing truck rolls and site visits.
With its Energy Intelligence software, Tigo Energy simplifies solar installation and fleet management. The software monitors and maximizes uptime and optimizes O&M costs and commissioning for installations. As Tigo prioritizes installer efficiency, the platform ensures fleet, site and module-level analytics at the highest granularity in a powerful dashboard.
Wattch is the next-generation monitoring platform for solar + storage. With turnkey solutions for systems of all sizes, Wattch makes utility-grade monitoring simple and affordable at any capacity. Best-in-class performance models enable real time alerts, remote diagnostics and advanced reporting to save your team time and money.