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Helioscope

Accurate solar design for commercial projects

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Overview

What Helioscope does

Helioscope is a web-based solar design and sales tool that enables solar professionals to quickly create accurate PV system designs. It features advanced shading analysis, performance modeling, and proposal generation for commercial and utility-scale projects.

What people use it for

  • Simulating photovoltaic system performance and energy yield
  • Laying out commercial solar arrays and producing design reports

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Helioscope.

  • Licences are single user, so each designer needs their own
  • Projects are capped at 10 a month on both Basic and Pro
  • System size is capped by plan, at 1.25 MW DC on Basic and 5 MW on Pro, so a larger array forces an upgrade regardless of project count
  • Trackers, LIDAR modelling and API access sit on the higher tiers
  • Enterprise is priced per project with no published figure

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Pricing

What Helioscope costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

Free

  • 3 projects
  • Basic design tools
  • Shade analysis
  • Energy production
  • Community support

Professional

$95 /mo

  • Unlimited projects
  • Advanced shading
  • Custom reports
  • Team collaboration
  • Priority support

Enterprise

On request

  • Everything in Pro
  • API access
  • Custom integrations
  • SSO
  • Dedicated success manager

Capabilities

Features

  • PV system design

    PV system design capability

  • 3D shade modeling

    3D shade modeling capability

  • Performance simulation

    Performance simulation capability

  • Single-line diagrams

    Single-line diagrams capability

  • BOM generation

    BOM generation capability

  • Proposal templates

    Proposal templates capability

  • Component database

    Component database capability

  • Financial modeling

    Financial modeling capability

  • Google Earth

    Integration with Google Earth

  • Nearmap

    Integration with Nearmap

  • Eagleview

    Integration with Eagleview

  • Salesforce

    Integration with Salesforce

Behind it

Who makes Helioscope

Company
Folsom Labs
Based in
San Francisco, CA
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