1. [Home](https://www.g2.com/) 2. ... 3. [Energy Site Selection Tools Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/energy-site-selection-tools) 4. [RatedPower Discussions](https://www.g2.com/products/ratedpower/discuss) [ ![RatedPower](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/large_detail/large_detail_21e738cf95d450a90b2da35bbef60688/ratedpower.png "RatedPower") ![Reward for good RatedPower reviews](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/report_medal_translation/image/38891/medal.svg "Reward for good RatedPower reviews") ](/products/ratedpower/reviews) # RatedPower Discussions Most of the sites you look at won't get built. The problem is telling which ones, fast enough to matter. A week or two per site of hand-built layouts across spreadsheets, AutoCAD and Google Earth, and the call lands on the one scenario you had time to draw. The rest of your pipeline waits. Enverus RatedPower changes what that costs. Give us a real project site and you get a complete, data-backed design for utility-scale PV, standalone battery storage (BESS) or a hybrid, from feasibility to a pre-construction-ready layout, in minutes instead of weeks. AboitizPower cut design time by 95%. Mulilo reports around 90%. The same team advances more projects, and every go/no-go call rests on simulated scenarios. Developers, IPPs, EPCs, engineering consultancies and utilities run RatedPower. Describe the goal, get the design Enverus ONE Power Analyst is the AI layer inside RatedPower. Tell it the objective in plain language: a target capacity, an IRR, a grid constraint. Power Analyst runs hundreds of parametric iterations across the simulation, design space exploration and CAPEX engines, then hands back ranked options, each backed by a full simulation. It'll also review designs you've already built. Nothing is saved or executed without your confirmation. What one pass gives you One pass produces the layout, the electrical and interconnection design, the CAPEX estimate and more than 400 editable documents: single-line diagrams, gen-tie reports, bills of quantities, yield reports. Energy yield runs module by module in a 3D ray-traced model, terrain and shading included, in 10 to 20 minutes. Upload topography and cut-and-fill sizes the earthworks. Batch simulations sweep pitch, DC/AC ratio, module and tracker choice, then rank results on production, ground coverage ratio, CAPEX and LCOE. The bankable P50/P90/P99 your lender asks for stays with PVsyst. We reconcile against it: a Black & Veatch audit put our simplified yield within +0.24% to +1.08%. Layouts, 3D shading scenes and editable reports export to PVsyst and the rest of your stack. Storage on the same path RatedPower sizes and lays out BESS inside a PV plant, DC or AC coupled, or standalone, with dispatch, degradation and battery CAPEX and OPEX in the financial model. Advanced merchant and ancillary-service strategies aren't fully automated yet. We'd rather say so here than later. It fits the stack you already run The Layout Editor hands you manual control, and any layout exports to DWG and imports back once you've edited it. Civil and cabling depth doesn't mean rebuilding the model somewhere else. Site analysis and prospection come from Enverus PRISM International, a separate product; datasets outside the US and Canada may be included depending on the plan. One subscription, whoever uses it RatedPower is a per-company subscription with unlimited users, projects and designs. Screen four sites or four hundred, and adding an engineer doesn't move the number. 5,800+ solar professionals have designed 64,000+ projects and simulated more than 5.1 TW in RatedPower. 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