RatedPower's expertise has made the company a benchmark in the renewable energy industry. With more than 250 international customers, including Iberdrola, Cobra, Engie, Shell, BayWa, Sens Steag, Sungrow and EDF, the company has taken its flagship product, pvDesign, to another level.

With global recognition, the company is preparing to participate in the third edition of Energyear Portugal, the best-rated networking congress in the industry that will bring together more than 300 experts.

During the congress, RatedPower will talk about the company's software and four new features it has introduced during the second quarter of this year in pvDesign. With many recent updates, RatedPower has confirmed its competitiveness in the market.

New functionalities: RatedPower's top four

The first milestone of these new features is the import of geospatial data for faster site prospecting. According to the company, PV developers can now speed up surveying through two tools: importing cadastral parcel geometries during the design process and importing the data of each parcel from the Enverus catalogue, the widest and deepest available on the market.

According to Angeliki Zeaki, Product Manager at RatedPower, “the connection between Enverus Power & Renewables and RatedPower solutions allows developers, IPPs and funds to confidently and accurately present their investment thesis, understand their risks and opportunities.” More details on this functionality can be found during the live session "Power duo: Power & renewables parcels and RatedPower".

The second update relates to roadless designs. With this functionality, the company explains that it is now possible to generate roadless layouts. "By eliminating roads, a higher area fill factor is achieved. The location of the transformer station (TS) also changes. When the roadless option is selected, the TS will be placed as close as possible to the access point of the available area. This option is only available if the PV plant has only one TS, or if each area is less than 5 ha," says RatedPower.

A third update works with the equipment database. According to RatedPower, with this new solution, the library of structures, modules and inverters now includes 5,000 updated references, allowing a quick comparison of the energy production performance and LCOE of the chosen equipment.

The fourth and final functionality has seen the company focus on the grouping of low voltage zones. With this fourth update, RatedPower customers and users can now tell the software that certain available areas can share the low-voltage system. Previously, an inverter could only be contained in one area. This meant that if an area was too small, there could be unused structures due to DC/AC ratio restrictions. With this new functionality, an inverter can have structures in more than one zone, resulting in much higher peak power under certain conditions.

Along with this last functionality and the “no road” feature, RatedPower’s software now also allows its users to define the civil and power inputs per area. The company believes that this feature will increase the ability to customize the PV plant and achieve more installed capacity.

With these new milestones, the company wants to continue to expand around the world. Therefore, it will be part of other Energyear tour events not only in Europe but also in Latin America. If you want to learn more, feel free to approach them directly or get in touch with the sales team for a free demo.