RATED POWER SL

Their core work

Rated Power builds pvDesign, a SaaS platform that automates the feasibility analysis and engineering design of utility-scale photovoltaic power plants. Their software is used by solar developers, EPC contractors, and utilities to compress weeks of manual design work into hours. The platform handles everything from initial site feasibility through detailed plant layout optimization, reducing the cost and time of early-stage solar project development. They are a product company — their value is the software, not consulting or engineering services.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Rated Power's H2020 trajectory follows the textbook SME Instrument path: a Phase 1 feasibility grant in 2018 to validate the pvDesign concept, followed immediately by a Phase 2 development grant of €1.5M in 2019 to build and commercialise the full platform. The absence of keywords in the early project reflects the exploratory, pre-product stage; all substantive technical and market terms — SaaS, utility, EPC, solar developer — only crystallise in the 2019-2021 project as the product matures. The direction is unambiguous: from concept validation to a commercial software product for the solar development industry.

Rated Power is on a pure commercialisation trajectory — their EU funding was a launchpad for a SaaS product now likely operating at scale in the solar market, making them more relevant as a technology partner or customer than a research collaborator.

How they like to work

Rated Power operated entirely solo in both H2020 projects — no consortium partners, no third parties, no cross-border collaborations. This is consistent with the SME Instrument model, which funds single companies rather than consortia. It means there is no evidence of how they behave in collaborative R&D settings, and any future partnership would be their first EU consortium experience.

Rated Power has zero recorded consortium partners across both H2020 projects, collaborating with no external organisations and no partner countries. Their EU project footprint is entirely self-contained, which is typical for SME Instrument recipients but leaves their collaborative network invisible in this dataset.

What sets them apart

Rated Power is one of the few EU-funded companies to have built a dedicated SaaS product specifically for utility-scale PV plant design — a narrow but high-value niche in the solar value chain. Their software targets the exact bottleneck where solar developers and EPCs lose the most time: early-stage feasibility and design iteration. For a consortium working on solar energy digitalisation, grid integration, or smart energy systems, they bring a live commercial product and real user base rather than a prototype.

Highlights from their portfolio

• pvDesign (SME-2)
  The largest grant (€1.5M) funded full commercialisation of the pvDesign SaaS platform, making this the project where the product became real — and the most relevant window into what Rated Power actually built.
• pvDesign (SME-1)
  The Phase 1 feasibility grant (€50k, 2018) is notable as the origin point that validated the business case and directly unlocked the larger Phase 2 award the following year.