RatedPower (pvDesign) is a cloud tool that generates automated plant designs and is positioned for utility-scale projects. SolarSimPro brings the cycle from drawing to quotation into one place for rooftop and mid-scale ground-mount work. The distinction is rarely in a feature list; most often it is in the scale of your projects.
Automatically configuring a single site in the megawatt range is a different job from turning out several rooftop and mid-scale ground-mount projects a week. If yours is the second, throughput matters more than depth of features.
SolarSimPro covers six roof types, parapet and chimney obstacles and a real layout. Tools focused on utility scale generally leave rooftop work outside their scope.
Bill of materials, line-by-line cost, feasibility and a client-ready report all come from the same model; the setting-out plan is delivered as DXF.
Parcel lookup, slope and aspect analysis, inter-row shading distance and tables following ground elevation are all part of the ground-mount workflow.
On a utility-scale site the design itself can take weeks, and automation delivers a large gain there; the tools specialised in that field are strong.
In rooftop and mid-scale ground-mount work, by contrast, the bottleneck is not the design but the proposal cycle: measure, build the layout, produce the cost, show the feasibility, hand over the CAD file. That cycle repeats several times a week, and every hand-off step costs time.
When the layout changes, module count, bill of materials, cost, yield and payback all update together. With separate tools that update is manual — and often does not happen.
Having the figure in the quotation come from the same model as the design also prevents discrepancies surfacing later.
Rebuilding a typical project and looking at the deliverables gives you an answer faster than reading a feature list.
The ground-mount workflow covers mid-scale plants: parcel, topography, layout, shading, yield, cost and setting-out output. For projects in the tens of megawatts with complex grid connection requirements, the tools specialised in that field are well established.
Yes. Six roof types, parapet, chimney and vent obstacles, a real layout and near-shading analysis are all part of the rooftop workflow.
Yes. Payback, net present value and internal rate of return are calculated from the consumption profile, tariff and net metering, and exported as a client-ready report.
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Rebuild a typical site and compare the time taken and the deliverables. Runs in the browser.