Best Solar Software
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What is Solar Software?
Solar software enables solar companies to manage all aspects of their solar business, and offers features such as solar design, solar sales, solar maintenance, solar operations, solar monitoring, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Solar software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Quickbase
Quickbase
Deliver workflows and real-time visibility across your operations so your teams can outpace change. Extend and connect data, processes, and workflows to drive deeper insight and automation across complex processes and disparate systems. Adapt your operations faster to respond to opportunities and risks. Tailor workflows to support the unique, ever-changing ways your people work. Create new workflows to respond to emerging challenges and support new ways of working in days, not weeks. Create, connect, govern and continually improve an ecosystem of custom digital solutions on a secure platform for your most critical data and processes. Transform the way your data is used and safely empower your people to deliver real-time insights from one unified platform. Unlock your team's potential. Get started with Quickbase today. -
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60Hertz
60Hertz
60Hertz offers the first complete O&M software platform designed by renewable energy professionals for distributed energy resources. Our offline-first CMMS tackles the challenges of managing rural assets, from poor connectivity to different ability levels. It's the maintenance software you need to monitor and manage your off-grid critical assets in extreme conditions. Our software helps you streamline maintenance management, drive program success, and avoid performance degradation and other costly mistakes. From installation to maintenance, our platform is ready to blend with your legacy systems for efficient and effective operations. Save money and time while ensuring your equipment is correctly set up and maintained with 60Hertz, a woman-owned company. Accomplishments: 210,000 maintenance logs filed in 2022 30 customers in 10 countries Recipient of NOAA Smal Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award for weather-informed maintenance algorithms AWS Awardee 2022 GridFWD Pitch CoStarting Price: $20 per month / per site -
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Borealis
Borealis
Our Stakeholder Engagement Software gives you the tools you need to build more effective engagement plans, improve relationships with stakeholders and align processes with industry best practices. It provides a single platform for managing all stakeholder engagement activities with additional modules to strengthen all areas of environment, social and governance. The Stakeholder Engagement module centralizes all stakeholder data and keeps it right at your fingertips to simplify day-to-day tasks. The Social Investment module makes it easier to create tangible value for both local communities and your organization. The Grievance Management module provides a structured and transparent process for handling grievances in a timely and effective manner. The Land Management module helps improve engagement outcomes and minimize risks of unnecessary work delays or stoppages by giving them the tools to centralize and map all land-based assets and create links with project stakeholders. -
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Solargis
Solargis
Accurate estimation of solar energy potential is crucial in the pre-feasibility phase. Besides accurate results, it is also desired that the pre-feasibility study is done efficiently. Solargis prospecting tools, iMaps and pvPlanner, provide fast access to reliable solar yield estimates. The new Prospect tool further increases the accuracy of estimates and makes it easier to collaborate efficiently on the development of solar projects. Solargis data has the best accuracy and reliability amongst available solar databases. This has been confirmed by several independent studies. Solargis data has been validated at 1000+ locations globally. Validation statistics for 180+ non-confidential sites can be seen on our validation map. Popular simulation software such as PVsyst has advanced capabilities for system design and energy modeling. However, the default weather data in such tools is not the most reliable.Starting Price: €1,800 per year -
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ENACT Solar Software
ENACT Systems
Our innovative platform speeds up sales and project execution, delivering high performing solar and energy storage systems. Features include: remote design using satellite images, proposals with detailed pricing and energy analytics, and seamless project management. Our app for end-customers is the first of it’s kind; the only platform that verifies predictive performance and savings. Features included solar and storage power-flows, utility bill savings, and performance analytics. Multiple workflows for team members and task assignment. Use high-resolution satellite images to create residential or commercial layouts. Close deals faster with beautiful and accurate proposals. Manage projects to rapid completion and impress customers.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Kwest
Kwest
Install faster with Kwest. We centralize all your data, people, and partners to coordinate your work efficiently and collaborate with ease. Kwest is the leading solar project management software for modern solar installers.Starting Price: $200 -
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RETScreen
RETScreen International
The RETScreen® Clean Energy Management Software platform enables low-carbon planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting. RETScreen Expert, an advanced premium version of the software, is available in Viewer mode completely free-of-charge. We collaborate with government and multilateral organizations to co-fund and develop advanced versions of the RETScreen® Clean Energy Management Software platform. RETScreen Expert, the intelligent version of the software, incorporates benchmark, feasibility, performance and portfolio analysis for various types of facilities, including commercial, institutional, residential, industrial and power generation, all within one comprehensive platform. The focus of our innovation lab is to ensure that the RETScreen software is always at the leading edge of the clean energy technology transition, and that we continuously improve our platform to meet the complex needs of our large and rapidly growing global user community.Starting Price: $869 per year -
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eSolarCRM
eSolarCRM
Everyone needs to sort out the leads to new, cold, hot, and potential to increase sales. Sales funnel is playing an important role in completing the lead to customers. Manage the contacts and quotations to inquire with follow-up and reminders in an organized way. It lets you know how many projects are in the installation phase and who is managing the site with high-level communication. It is the most important thing that covers all progress and process flow, considering the installation and government documentation. Every project has government document file submission and processing for the approval that gets managed easily. Every project starts with a deposit, the rest of the amount gets collected when the project closes, and when the government releases the subsidies. Solar Panels, Inverter, Solar Systems have the age of 25 years and need comprehensive monitoring and maintenance to generate efficient power across the whole year.Starting Price: $45.99 per user per month -
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PVSketch
PVComplete
PVSketch is an intuitive web app designed to streamline solar project development. A friendly interface allows sales professionals easy access to a precision layout tool with little or no training. PVSketch helps visualize solar energy solutions and creates accurate energy modeling. PVSketch is part of the PVComplete platform. PVComplete allows solar developers, installers and engineers to work together on a single, versatile platform combining efficiency and accuracy. Sales professionals can begin a project quickly online with PVSketch and then transfer the project to PVCAD, our AutoCAD plugin, for a detailed engineering plan. PVSketch makes solar design simple. As little as five clicks and you can create a solar project packed with valuable information. Simple and instinctive drawing tools make accurate solar design accessible to any individual. While a single click can generate an entire layout if you dig deeper you can refine your solar design to create sophisticated designs.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Lyra Solar
Lyra Solar
Quickly and easily create permit-ready residential solar designs for free. Export ready-to-submit permit packages for as low as $49 in just a few minutes. Generate a ready-to-submit solar permit package at the click of a button. Every interaction is designed to be fast and simple. Lyra is so easy to use that any experienced solar professional can jump in without any training. Design just what you need for a permit, from a simple preliminary design to a down-to-the-component level permit-ready design. Generate a permit package from the design with the click of a button. Seriously, it's that easy. The Lyra solar design tool is free to use. All we need is your email address to get you set up and ready to knock out your first design. We work with solar design software companies to augment their offerings. If you lack permit packaging in your product offering, contact us to discuss how we can work together.Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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Energy Toolbase
Energy Toolbase
Energy Toolbase is an industry-leading 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 more efficiently. Gold standard, an industry-leading software platform for modeling and proposing the economics of solar and storage projects. Intelligent control system software utilizing machine learning and AI to forecast and optimally discharge energy storage systems. Robust monitoring platform providing complete transparency into the real-time operation and performance of solar + storage projects. We're obsessed with accuracy and clarity. We precisely calculate utility bills and avoided costs in a transparent and defensible fashion. Our account management team provides personalized on-boarding, training, and support to tailor our products to fit your specific needs.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Greenbyte
Greenbyte
Aggregate data from a wide variety of critical sources—from SCADA data to power forecasts—regardless of the hardware manufacturer or 3rd party service, in a central software platform. Stay ahead of the game and detect anomalies early—both existing and impending—with advanced performance monitoring and AI-based predictive analytics. Extract more value from your assets with software designed to help you analyze underperformance, pinpoint issues and reveal opportunities for optimization and cost savings. Amp up both organization-wide productivity and energy production with a highly customizable system, built on industry-leading best practices, designed to help teams exceed expectations.Starting Price: Free -
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Power Factors Drive
Power Factors
Power Factors’ Drive platform is a cloud-based asset performance management (APM) software solution for renewable assets. Drive empowers owners, operators, and asset managers with tools to monitor, manage and optimize the performance of renewable energy assets — from operations to reporting to technical asset management. Drive Pro builds on the data foundation established by the Drive platform to deliver advanced analytic insights that connect stakeholders across all aspects of asset performance management — from plant design to predictive modeling to O&M. Our asset-centric enterprise asset management (EAM) system, Drive O&M, seamlessly integrates with the Drive platform, connecting operational events, maintenance history, and compliance/contractual requirements for each asset. Automated workflows and failure categorizations help increase asset lifetime value while streamlining O&M processes.Starting Price: Free -
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Scopito
Scopito
Scopito is a predictive maintenance software that analyzes geospatial inspection data for assets, including power lines, wind turbines, buildings, and solar panels. The software platform digitizes assets to derive insights, detect faults, assess risks, identify trends, and enable predictive maintenance through historical data analysis. It aims to introduce intelligent automation into inspection workflows to optimize operations and reduce service interruptions for energy infrastructure and other industrial clients. The data visualization and management software provides secure storage, smart filtering, data sharing capabilities, and integration with other critical systems. With sorting, smart-filtering, and safe storage, Scopito helps you manage and share your large amounts of data securely. Enabling cooperation within international teams. Data is easily and securely sent for review with other team members, without ever leaving the platform.Starting Price: €50 one-time payment -
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Scoop Solar
Scoop Robotix
We help solar, battery storage, EV infrastructure companies of all sizes execute thousands of projects & maintenance tasks, connect their software tools, increase efficiency and their capacity for growth. Smooth out sales opportunity intake and closed customer handoff to operations with automated workflows. Give designers and permitting coordinators a solid workflow framework for efficiency, speed and accuracy. Reduce the complexity and ensure all key steps are followed consistently regardless of the install crew. Speed up the Job Closeout and Permission to Operate by ensuring tasks & submissions are done completely and on time. Simplify service troubleshooting and preventative maintenance ticket creation, scheduling and field execution. Scoop allows renewable energy installers and service businesses to manage work orders, streamline service requests, dispatch technicians, and more. -
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Smart Field CMMS
Smart Field CMMS
Smart Field Forms offers a flexible solution that could be configured for many industries. Industries that require management of a field force and field assets or simply have to move to a paperless solution could take an advantage of the features offered by our platform. Asset and Work Order management features will simplify the maintenance and improve the availability and revenues of solar installations. Receive real-time maintenance reports. Dispatch work orders to field teams. Maintain wind turbines with Asset registry and Work Orders. Schedule preventive maintenance. Respond to inspection reports by dispatching tasks to your field teams. Perform site, vehicle, and equipment inspections. Track incident reports. Record photo and location of inspection and incident reports. Schedule preventive maintenance. -
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Jigawatt
Jigawatt
Sales and management for solar companies. Generate, manage, and convert quality leads using Jigawatt’s integrated solar CRM. Give your prospects a smashing first impression, and your reps the ability to strike while the iron's hot. Slick web tools educate and inspire site visitors to go solar, and let you be the one to take them there. Jigawatt is the brainchild of a group of solar professionals with years of experience in the field and office. It’s tested in real-world situations in a fully operational, profitable, full-stack solar company. Centralized communication streamlines your workflow. You'll never need to dig through old email threads again. Give your prospects a smashing first impression, and your reps the ability to strike while the iron's hot. Slick web tools educate and inspire site visitors to go solar, and let you be the one to take them there. Jigawatt is the brainchild of a group of solar professionals with years of experience in the field and office.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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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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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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Artemis
Artemis
Artemis is a generative AI-powered clean energy proposal and design platform that transforms how installers, sales reps, and operations teams quote, sell, and manage residential solar, battery, and home improvement projects with speed and accuracy. It automatically generates complete, compliant solar and battery system layouts, shading and geospatial analysis, production modeling, and ROI savings in seconds by fusing high-resolution imagery, utility data, and local regulations, eliminating manual drafting and long design queues. It embeds financing options, lender comparisons, and soft credit checks into live proposals, lets users edit designs and pricing in real time during presentations, and supports CRM integrations and website embeds so customers can get interactive pricing and system designs online. Artemis also centralizes workflows from design through contract execution and operations, offers white-labeled tools for sales teams, and uses validated data and AI models.Starting Price: $8 per proposal -
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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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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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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.
