| Name |
Country |
Comments |
| Planning, Simulation & Design |
| PVsyst |
Switzerland |
Software package for design and analysis of both on- and off-grid photovoltaic systems. It is the defacto standard tool for bankable yield estimations. Green Rhino Energy offers PVSyst training |
| Homer Energy |
United States |
Homer Energy is the tool to optimally size components of hybrid renewable energy systems for off-grid and weak-grid scenarios. Green Rhino Energy offers training for Homer. |
| Ansys |
USA |
Engineering simulation with segment focusing on electrification |
| Dr. Valentin Energie Software GmbH |
Germany |
Software solutions for planning, design, dynamic simulation and profitability calculations concerning solar plants |
| Greenius |
Germany |
simulation software for a number of renewable technologies, developed by the university in Berlin. Technologies include solar pv, solar thermal, concentrated solar, fuel cells, wind parks. There is a free version available. |
| Monitoring & System Control |
| natcon7 GmbH |
Germany |
Portal that allows individual systems to be operated in a virtual network, reducing totoal costs for distribution |
| Tigo Energy |
USA |
An active management and monitoring system that can control each module indvidually with a help of a special hardware device. Most other monitoring systems can only measure at string-level. |
| Solar Log |
Germany |
Solar Log provides a wireless energy management system. |
| Amitec |
Israel |
SolAmitec is a management System for monitoring security, safety and maintenance of solar installations. |
| SunSniffer |
Germany |
This is another module-level monitoring system that places a chip on every module providing detailed analysis of the solar plant. |
A number of software companies offer solutions specifically tailored to the solar market.
There are three main categories:
