Software

New hail monitoring system now on market for solar O&M pros

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:30:59 +0000

Kisters today released an early-warning and hail monitoring system to the solar industry called HailSens360. Through intelligent software and sensor technology, HailSens360 synthesizes forecast data (18 hours ahead), nowcast data (60-90 minutes ahead with updates every 6 minutes) along with post-event analysis detailing the full scope of a hail event. These crucial pre- and post-event…

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New version of EagleView TrueDesign has tree-removal feature to model shading

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:45:16 +0000

EagleView Technologies has launched the latest release of its solar design solution: TrueDesign Version 2.0. The updated cloud-based solution is available to customers now. TrueDesign bridges the gap between sales and installation enabling users to design solar panel layouts, determine shading analysis, and estimate energy production quickly and accurately. TrueDesign is a web-based application, with…

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Sunobi releases Utility vs. Battery tool to help California contractors highlight NEM 3.0 savings

Kelsey Misbrener — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:33:10 +0000

Sunobi announced the launch of its new Utility vs. Battery tool to help customers make well-informed decisions about solar panel and battery options, while simplifying the sales process in California’s rapidly growing solar market. California has long been a leader in solar energy adoption, but as the state transitions to the new NEM 3.0 program,…

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PlanHub updates software platform to simplify preconstruction tasks

Kelsey Misbrener — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:08:39 +0000

PlanHub has announced the expansion of its end-to-end general contractors’ platform. The simplified, cloud-based tool will be a one-stop shop to help general contractors improve collaboration with subcontractors and material suppliers, find new projects, request, receive and select quality bids, qualify subcontractors and create winning proposals. The expanded platform aims to simplify preconstruction. General contractors…

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EIPGRID, Intertrust partner on secure VPP platform

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:50:34 +0000

Intertrust and EIPGRID have announced a partnership that will deliver a highly secure, efficient digital energy platform, which provides trusted distributed energy resource management (DERM) and virtual power plant (VPP) capabilities to energy companies and end users around the world. These technologies will be useful to help alleviate the worst energy crisis in decades. Distributed…

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Sitetracker announces residential solar Quickstart to speed adoption

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:54:32 +0000

Sitetracker announced its Quickstart implementation for residential solar companies. This process gets residential solar companies implemented with Sitetracker’s set of industry-proven workflows in just a matter of weeks so they can realize operational efficiencies sooner and deploy assets faster. Sitetracker enables critical energy infrastructure companies to manage their large-scale deployments and solve issues like program…

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Solar software developers integrate with financiers 2023 Trends in Solar

Billy Ludt — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:59:45 +0000

Solar design and sales software providers are increasingly integrating with financing services to streamline the PV project commissioning process. Last year alone, Energy Toolbase added commercial solar financing service Luminia to its developer platform; Aurora Solar integrated with Dividend, Sungage Financial, Mosaic and GoodLeap for residential solar financing; and even solar panel manufacturer Solaria merged…

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How solar contractors can use field service management software to lower soft costs

SPW — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:03:52 +0000

By Anand Subbaraj, CEO, Zuper The problem of soft costs is not new. They currently make up 65% of the cost for residential PV and 57% total costs for commercial rooftop PV. For many solar businesses they represent a chronic drain on company bottom lines and hurt their ability to differentiate, stay competitive and scale.…

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Raptor Maps, GreenPowerMonitor combine expertise in solar software platforms

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:43:18 +0000

Raptor Maps is working with monitoring provider GreenPowerMonitor to better monitor solar assets. Raptor Maps and GPM will localize inverter, combiner, and pyranometer data to the correct geospatial position on a solar farm, making it accessible via a digital twin. Asset owners and operators will have immediate assessments into how the physical conditions of modules…

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Xendee microgrid design platform updates tools to reflect new ITC, PTC options

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:32:11 +0000

Xendee, a provider of renewable project and microgrid design and decision support software, has launched a series of new features that integrate the latest tax incentives from the new Inflation Reduction Act directly into its platform. This allows engineers to quickly integrate the benefits of these policies with their projects and see the effects on…

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Entergy chooses GridUnity software to streamline distributed energy interconnection process

Kelsey Misbrener — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 12:47:14 +0000

GridUnity announced that Entergy Services has selected the company’s cloud-based Interconnection Lifecycle Management software product to streamline the interconnection process for distributed energy resources. Entergy delivers electricity to approximately 3 million customers through five operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. GridUnity’s platform was selected to simplify and accelerate the process of adding distributed…

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Aurora to host virtual Empower gathering for solar professionals

Kelsey Misbrener — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:10:09 +0000

Aurora Solar, a cloud-based platform creating a future of solar for all by powering industry professionals to make solar simple and predictable, has announced its online event Empower on November 1-2, 2022, where the solar community shapes the future together. Empower is a free event where attendees can earn up to four NABCEP CEU credits.…

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Aurora Solar integrates 3 new financing options for residential market

Billy Ludt — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:10:25 +0000

Cloud-based photovoltaic system design and sales software provider Aurora Solar has integrated with three solar financing services. Dividend, Mosaic and Sungage Financial have joined Aurora’s partner ecosystem. “As the Inflation Reduction Act makes solar more accessible, we expect a large increase in the number of homeowners looking to go solar. It’s critical that the industry…

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Reliance Industries acquires majority stake in SenseHawk

Kelsey Misbrener — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:40:45 +0000

SenseHawk has announced that Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is acquiring a majority stake in the company through an investment of $32 million towards future growth, commercial rollout of products and R&D. RIL plans to use the SenseHawk Solar Digitization Platform (SDP) to roll out its plan to develop 100 GW by 2030. The SenseHawk SDP…

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Solar Power World presents its 2022 RE+ exhibitor preview

SPW — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:00:16 +0000

The biggest solar tradeshow in the United States is back after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Solar Power World has compiled a list of new products to check out next week at the Anaheim Convention Center, from panels to software and everything in between. Our editors be reporting from the show floor Sept. 20-22 and look…

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