RatedPower

RatedPower, formerly pvDesign, is a Madrid-built cloud platform for designing utility-scale solar plants and battery storage. Enverus has owned it since 2022. A user sets rules for setbacks, roads, slopes, and structure alignment, and the software generates a PV layout. It then handles the electrical design, including MV/LV connections, inverters, string boxes, and single-line diagrams. It also prices cut-and-fill into CAPEX and produces bills of quantities, drawings, financial sheets, and editable reports. Energy yield can be run with a simplified model, which a vendor-published Black & Veatch audit placed within about 1 percent of PVsyst, or with a 3D ray-traced model that accounts for terrain shading. The platform also covers standalone storage, hybrid PV plus storage dispatch with user-supplied power prices, interconnection design, and site prospecting in selected geographies. Its AI agent, Power Analyst, compares design matrices and searches for designs that hit LCOE or IRR targets. Pricing is quote-only. All three tiers (Basic, Advanced, Enterprise) are sold as a per-company subscription with unlimited users, projects, and designs, usually on multi-year contracts. Layouts can be exported to DWG for CAD editing and imported back, and shading data can be exported to PVsyst. The product suits developers, EPCs, and engineering firms that need to iterate quickly on large ground-mount projects. It is not meant for rooftop or residential work. Its main limitations are the lack of published prices, standard email support with responses of up to 48 working hours, and the fact that many teams still use PVsyst for the bankable P50/P90 reports lenders ask for.