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SolarSketch

Solar Photovoltaic AI

Design & Development Platform

Make solar development as simple as answering

multiple-choice questions

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Let SolarSketch help your do everything

The AI era of solar

design & development is here

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Easy site survey with drone imaging

Drones streamline solar site surveys with fast, accurate data collection, enhanced safety, and precise planning. They reduce costs, enable environmental assessments, and support efficient project execution. With the auto scaned imagary, generating 3D objects to accurately analyze shading from obstruction.

One-click imaging upload, with automatic 3D modeling 

It simplifies solar project engineering by quickly capturing high-quality images and generating accurate 3D models, reducing manual effort and improving design precision. This feature accelerates site analysis, enhances layout planning, and ensures efficient project execution with minimal errors.

AI detects & labels building surface & obstruction in hours

After the drone 3D models of the building are constructed, AI is used to label the building flat or tilted surface. Auto-detect thousands of obstructions only in few hours, that can cause shading or non-suitable solar placement. It help tp cut time for solar engineering and accerlates the solar project development. 

Solar radiation resource analysis

Generate meteorological files at the project coordinate location with one click, support multiple authoritative data sources such as Meteonorm, NASA, PVGIS, and NSRDB meteorological data.

Provides 4 types of external solar radiation data. Other function including automated satellite data calibrate & correction function

Meteorological archives project sites can be used to compare meteorological data from multiple data sources

 

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Electrical engineering design & analysis

Utilizing our built-in 3D modeling engine, whether flat or sloping roof, common house structure or complex roof structure can be modeled with one click. Supports import of CAD format files of buildings and obstructions outline, and generates corresponding accurate 3D models with one click.

The self-developed intelligent design interface for primary and secondary equipment electrical systems covers various design pain points such as multi-voltage levels, scattered grid connection points, and complex control and scheduling of distributed photovoltaic electrical systems. It automatically completes relevant electrical calculations based on equipment  data configuration and main wiring scheme.

Millimeter-precision 3D modeling engine

Support automatic import & output CAD files

 Smart and automated component layout solutions

Hourly 3D shading irradiance analysis yearly

Inverter placement configuration, string, wiring, & bridging optimization

Electrical primary and secondary equipment selection & design

Electrical secondary equipment configuration and UPS calculation sheets

Generate and download the cable inventory, equipment quantity list, layout and CAD drawings with single click

Power simulation & analysis

Our photovoltaic power simulation model and algorithm have achieved high-precision results including every electrical component , filling the technical gap in this field and breaking the dependence on PVsyst. After a large number of tests and comparisons across the country, the deviation between the calculation results of "SolarSketch" and "PVsyst" generally does not exceed 1%.

Hourly power generation simulation over the entire 25-year life cycle

Full support for calculation and simulation of power generation of single and double-sided modules

Built-in terrain database function, automatically analyze the impact of distant horizon shading

Meteorological data analysis, sun trajectory simulation. The power output simulation across multiple equipment, from PV-cable-inverter-transformer-switchgear, system loss and efficiency, etc.

Calculate the equipment loss hour by hour, accurately analyze the loss of each electrical device and each cable,  comprehensively analyze the overall project performance.

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Civil engineering design & analysis

Our civil engineering development module covers a variety of photovoltaic layout scenarios, including steel tile roofs, concrete roofs, sun sheds, ground and water surfaces, and parking structures with conmpleted mechanical analysis based on wind and snow load in different regions.

 

It provides corresponding photovoltaic bracket configuration solutions such as rail clamp type and fixed bracket type for each layout scenario, and supports different bracket structure forms such as single and double columns, as well as concrete independent/strip foundations, precast piles, cast-in-place piles, screw piles, etc with built-in optimization algorithm to select the most cost-effective strctureal designs.

Automatic design and smart recommendation of photovoltaic racking and mounting component

Comprehensive build-in mechanical analysis to calculate load based on wind and snow data

AI-recommendation of racking equipment & corresponding foundations with quantity statistics

Generate total bill of quantities and bill of materials for the structure

Budgeting & profitability assessment 

From pervious design modules materials used and industry standards and specifications, our economic analysis automatically estimate equipment costs and quickly generate budget and other economic evaluations, automatically completes project engineering budget statistics, and generates project evaluation results with perfoessional excel export tables. Leting the investment and budget to be under your control!

  • Equipment and installation project budget table

  • Construction project budget table

  • Other cost estimates

  • Project total budget table

  • Main technical and economic indicators

  • Total investment use plan and fund raising table

  • Total cost estimate table

  • Profit and loss distribution statement

  • Loan repayment schedule

  • Financial planning cash flow statement

  • Project investment cash flow statement

  • Project capital cash flow statement

  • Cash flow statement of investing parties

  • Balance sheet

  • Financial indicators summary table

  • Project sensitivity analysis table

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Solar + BESS energy management platform

Based on our AI technology, the deployed model dynamically generates and issues control system strategies in real time. It integrates photovoltaic power generation and energy storage systems combined with forecast of PV generation, electricity consumption habits, and load demands. Leveraging the local peak-valley electricity price differences, it provides C&I enterprises with energy-saving and efficiency-enhancing solutions. By interact EMS of BESS, it optimizing energy usage strategies, C&I enterprise can significantly reduce electricity costs by an average of approximately 20% to 40% with our model depends on eneergy usage patterns.

Dynamically analyzes and adjusts energy usage strategies through AI algorithms to achieve real-time optimization of energy efficiency.

Provides high-precision generation power and load demand forecasts based on historical data and real-time monitoring, reducing energy waste.

Utilizes peak-valley electricity price differences to intelligently develop electricity usage strategies, significantly lowering electricity expenses for enterprises.

Enables fully automated control of PV generation, energy storage systems, and loads, improving the reliability and responsiveness of energy management.

Full-featured modules are available for demo.

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