Top 10 PV Designer Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to PV Designer Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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PVcase Ground Mount
By PVcase
4.7/5
(346)
Product Description
PVcase is an AutoCAD plugin for utility-scale PV plant design. It covers layout design —including basic and detailed engineering— until inverters. It's developed for PV engineers.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, PVcase Ground Mount is:
Better at support
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design

RatedPower
By Enverus
4.4/5
(269)
Product Description
When talking about utility-scale PV plant engineering, design time matters. It’s hard to keep the LCOE low, the ROI high, and win solar projects in a fiercely competitive market. pvDesign is the a cloud-based software which automates the study, analysis, design and engineering of PV plants. Customers report a 5% decrease in LCOE.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, RatedPower is:
Better at support
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design

Artemis
By Artemis Solar
4.9/5
(254)
Product Description
The fastest-growing solar and battery storage software.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, Artemis is:
Better at support
More usable
Easier to set up
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design
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Aurora Solar
By Aurora Solar
4.7/5
(121)
Product Description
Aurora Solar develops cloud-based software that enables sophisticated solar PV engineering design, provides workflow management functionality and facilitates sales and customer acquisition for solar installers and financiers.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, Aurora Solar is:
Better at support
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design

PVcase Prospect
By PVcase
4.4/5
(35)
Product Description
PVcase Prospect is a sophisticated site assessment tool tailored for renewable energy developers, specifically designed to address the complexities associated with early-stage development and site selection.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, PVcase Prospect is:
Better at support
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design

Virto.CAD
By Virto Solar
4.6/5
(21)
Product Description
Virto.CAD is our renowned solar PV design tool for AutoCAD or BricsCAD (BIM) programs. It allows leading EPC, engineering firms and developers in the solar industry to create detailed drawings and calculations for commercial rooftop and utility-scale ground-mounted solar plants.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, Virto.CAD is:
Better at support
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design

HelioScope
By Aurora Solar
4.5/5
(19)
Product Description
A web-based sales and design tool for solar professionals. It features a 3D design engine and energy yield simulation, a detailed financial calculator and drag-and-drop proposal editor.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, HelioScope is:
Better at support
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design

PVsyst
By Pvsyst
4.6/5
(19)
Product Description
PVsyst is a PC software package for the study, sizing and data analysis of complete PV systems. It deals with grid-connected, stand-alone, pumping and DC-grid (public transportation) PV systems, and includes extensive meteo and PV systems components databases, as well as general solar energy tools. PVsyst is designed to be used by architects, engineers, and researchers, as it is able to import meteo data, as well as personal data from many different sources. It includes a detailed contextual Help menu that explains the procedures and models that are used, and offers a user-friendly approach with a guide to develop a project. It has to be installed on the workstation where it will be used, and only runs for Windows.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, PVsyst is:
Better at support
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design

PVcase Roof Mount
By PVcase
4.7/5
(15)
Product Description
PVcase is a next generation PV software company. Driven by engineering know-how and cutting edge development team, we change the rules when it comes to solar design operations worldwide. Our customer base extends from Europe to North and South Americas, Asia and Australia, rapidly adding new customers with every software iteration. PVcase's approach to utility scale solar layout design strives to become the new industry standard as the PV industry is forced to evolve in an environment with significantly reduced subsidies. Our focus on automation and accuracy from the very earliest stages of planning, incorporating 3D topographical data points to simulate the actual location of the solar plant, allows our customers to be able to compete for and win more projects by delivering greater yields. PVcase’s automation plug-in for AutoCAD has already been used to design over 3 GW of projects by some of the world’s largest players in solar renewable energy. With our extensive experience in the solar design industry we see other opportunities to optimize and create efficiencies in other aspects of the evaluation and planning of commercial and utility scale PV projects and have several other products in the development process.
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Reviewers say compared to PV Designer, PVcase Roof Mount is:
Better at support
Categories in common with PV Designer:
Solar Design

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