What follows are the Top Solar Software and Monitoring Products for 2023. 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 2023 Top Solar Products here.
Ivy Energy is transforming the adoption of onsite clean energy resources for multi-unit communities through its Virtual Grid software. Virtual Grid uses smart grid logic and proprietary algorithms to distribute solar energy between multiple units in shared buildings in an accurate, compliant, and data-driven user experience. Virtual Grid makes it easy for shared properties to manage a solar program and delivers monthly energy savings for tenants while generating a new net operating income for property owners.
Leading commercial and residential developers trust Performance Assurance to optimize their solar assets, reduce operational expenses and protect their investments. Plans feature AI-powered technology that identifies and diagnoses actionable alerts, proactive communication and support from solar experts, centralized reporting, guaranteed performance and managed service via a nationwide field service network.
Cloud-based asset performance management (APM) software solution empowering renewable energy owners, operators, and asset managers with tools they need to monitor, manage, andoptimize the performance of their renewable energy assets. With automated workflows, AI-powered insights and role-based dashboards, Drive supports teams from operations to technical asset management to reporting.
PeakYield is a combination of software intelligence and site design techniques that will optimize all elements of your tracker’s performance. Maximize energy yield through efficient land utilization, lower operating costs, industry leading live data outputs and smart technology to improve production output while significantly reducing operating downtime.
Elevate your solar projects with ARKA 360 – your comprehensive solar design and management companion. Designing solar installations is no longer a complex maze. With ARKA 360, you can effortlessly create precise 3D models, tailor layouts and craft proposals that win. Managing leads, tasks, and pipelines has never been simpler, ensuring no potential goes unnoticed.
3D modeling of commercial sites can be error-prone and time-consuming. With HelioScope’s LIDAR feature, you can create an accurate 3D site model on the first try, every time. HelioScope expedites the design process by automatically accounting for shading from trees and neighboring structures in the performance simulation.
GreenLancer is an online marketplace for solar installers to get standardized, quality permit design and engineering solutions with speed, scale and reliability. The platform allows for batch project management, in-app communication, and a team of support specialists to help solar businesses save time and money.
clawOS is a powerful racking design portal allowing users to create racking drawings and calculations within minutes. From early-stage structural feasibility and budgeting through permit submittal and as-built management, clawOS compresses cycle time and lowers soft-costs. clawLogic provides real time order management and logistics updates for projects under construction.
PVcase Ground Mount means going one step further when designing solar PV systems. With this state-of-art software, compatible with PVsyst, designers are able to reduce repetitive work, speed up your design process up to 50%, and minimize human error. PVcase Ground Mount counts on efficient features that help on working complex terrain such as shading placement, slope analysis, and pilling and collision analysis. It also provides automated topographical 3D cabling, so automatic cross-section analysis in a few clicks as well.
Pylon’s Solar Design Tool helps businesses deliver fast, accurate and high resolution solar sales proposals in under two minutes. Perfect for those solar businesses looking for easy-to-use, collaborative software without any fixed fees.
RatedPower’s software, pvDesign, is the standard cloud-based software for designing and engineering utility-scale photovoltaic plants. Save 85% of the time spent in designing PV plants, and reduce several weeks of engineering work into a few minutes. Development, EPC and engineering firms use pvDesign to streamline their workflows and report a 5% decrease in LCOE.
SMA Sunny Design makes designing PV systems in a structured, streamlined and productive way. Within minutes of submitting initial project information online, a configuration based on optimal system design will be produced allowing solar power professionals and plant designers a comprehensive guide. This tool is free to use, enables flexible design options, provides technical testing details and helps to build a review of the systems’ overall efficiency.
Solar Data Systems is proud to offer Solar Monitoring as a Service (SolarMaaS), a comprehensive asset and fleet management solution including monitoring, visualization, evaluation, control and troubleshooting tools, as well as detailed performance reporting. This unique service includes resources, software and/or hardware for increasing asset performance and O&M efficiency.
PlantPredict is a suite of tools for streamlining the preliminary design of large-scale solar power plants, with more than 2 Terawatts of projects simulated to date. It includes PlantPredict for solar energy modeling, Design Pro for generating optimized layouts, Terrain Pro for earthwork assessment, and Voltage Pro for string sizing.
SIFT is a smart project optimization software used in early-stage development to identify the best system design and the right products for your solar projects. It crunches variables like weather and terrain, factors affecting module performance, as well as finance and revenue structures.
PV*SOL premium with 3D visualization and detailed shading analysis helps system designers and installers to professionally design and plan all types of photovoltaic systems — whether full or excess feed-in, net metering or off-grid, whether in combination with electrical appliances, battery systems and electric vehicles or together with a heat pump.
With Sales Mode, professional solar proposals are made simple through Aurora’s best-in-class designs and interactive selling tools to give reps everything they need to build homeowner trust coupled with AI-powered designs and custom proposal templates, and automation and dealer management tools to ensure accuracy and consistency at scale.
Demand IQ helps residential solar providers turbocharge their sales & marketing. Its website plug-in Stella enhances lead capture rates by up to 3.3X and saves time by auto-booking appointments and capturing bills. Hero, an easy-to-use solar canvassing app, streamlines data collection and boosts appointment set rates with instant savings reports.
Enact’s all-in-one platform offers remote design with 3D modeling, generates solar/storage proposals with detailed pricing & utility rates – this enables rapid sales and seamless project management. Enact’s latest features include auto-height and roof-pitch detection via HD satellite images. These enhancements reduce the need for site visits before the sale.
Enerflo is the only Lead to PTO, open API Solar Platform: Cutting soft costs and project duration through tech consolidation, data centralization and process efficiencies. Purpose-built for Residential Solar Installers, EPCs and Sales Dealers, Enerflo helps these organizations deploy more solar and related services through sales and business process automation.
Pylon’s Solar CRM boosts sales and enhances customer experiences effortlessly. It’s an intuitive platform that simplifies client interactions, automates outreach, and seamlessly integrates with Pylon’s own Solar Design Tool. With Pylon, you can enjoy a streamlined workflow, from lead import to post-sales service, ensuring satisfaction and efficiency at every step.
Lead Capture AI empowers marketers to take control of their lead generation strategy and stand out from the competition. Powered by Aurora’s industry-leading design accuracy, Lead Capture AI generates instant 3D solar estimates for homeowners with just their address and estimated electric bill.
Sunvoy is the first and only white-labeled/branded customer portal and fleet management system built by a solar installer for solar installers. Provide active monitoring and monthly reports for your customers with your logo, colors and brand instead of the inverter manufacturer.
Schneider Home: the all-in-one solution for home electrification, letting homeowners monitor, control, and automate their home’s energy system through one easy-to-use app. It saves money by optimizing usage, lowers carbon emissions by prioritizing the most sustainable source, and extends battery runtime with real-time control of what’s powered in an outage.
The SMA Energy App offers customers a perspective on both their solar power generation and usage while giving responsive recommendations for economical energy supply management. With up-to-date forecasts on solar power production to insights into optimization usage, the SMA Energy app provides and easily accessible, single resource to aid in energy transition.
The FlexOM Gateway V2 is CPS America’s newest and most advanced inverter data and communications gateway solution. The Gateway card enables remote diagnostics and troubleshooting to reduce system downtime while eliminating the need for expensive truck rolls. Ethernet and 4G options are available, plus access to the CPS web portal.
ETB Monitor provides complete transparency into the performance and savings of solar or solar + battery systems while seamlessly integrating with Energy Toolbase’s modeling software, ETB Developer. Diagnose and correct issues before they become costly and track electric bill savings with Energy Toolbase’s industry-leading electric bill calculation engine.
The PXiSE Renewable Power Plant Controller helps large energy generation and storage portfolio owners, developers, and EPCs optimize the efficiency and production of any combination of front-of-the-meter and utility-scale behind-the-meter renewable energy assets, maximizing ROI by unifying solar, wind and energy storage assets under one platform.
PV integrators/contractors using Mango 5 IoT Platform can scale distributed deployments of global portfolios to gain site-level metrics, or device-level data without building dashboards. Its Portfolio Manager overhauls remote connectivity for monitoring deployment–with KPI overviews, site-level historical graphs/maps, a drag-and-drop interface and code-free information tabs for individual roles/needs.
PV system operators and installers can access key system data anytime, anywhere with SMA Sunny Portal powered by ennexOS. Recognized as the next generation of monitoring and control of PV plants, Sunny Portal visualizes all energy data conveniently and concisely with live system status data.
Award-winning Infinity SMP empowers solar installers with comprehensive energy management that optimizes solar, storage, and EV charging. Offering real-time updates, it minimizes costs and maximizes customer satisfaction, while its straightforward installation and strategic benefits reduce site visits and expand business potential.
sonnenConnect California is a grid interactive Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program that goes ‘beyond backup power’ by combining batteries with sonnen’s patented, optimized Time-of-Use (TOU) algorithm technology. The program provides proactive bill management service, resulting in dramatically reduced monthly electric bills, along with direct payments to the consumer for wholesale energy market services.
For solar operators that want to optimize their storage assets, TWAICE’s Battery Analytics Platform combines battery knowledge, AI, cloud software, and real-time battery data to optimize deployment and management of batteries. The software eliminates risk and enables new revenue streams through predictive analytics, addressing concerns throughout the life cycle.
Wattch brings unprecedented insight and control to commercial and DG-scale renewable energy projects, all in one user-friendly web interface. With industry leading data fidelity, cyber security and asset compatibility, Wattch enables you to make better decisions from your energy data.