PVFARM Commercially Launches Utility-Scale Solar and Solar + Storage Optimization Platform RE PILOT®

Single-workflow decision-making brings layout, storage sizing, and project economics into one connected platform

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, PVFARM launched the commercial version of its platform for utility-scale solar + energy storage project optimization, RE PILOT. Together with PVFARM and RE STACK, RE PILOT forms an expanding suite of tools for utility-scale renewable energy design that enable teams to explore a wide range of project configurations before progressing into detailed engineering.

RE PILOT enables developers, EPCs, and storage specialists to evaluate thousands of utility-scale solar and colocated solar-plus-storage configurations in a single workflow. The platform tests layout, storage sizing, and placement against energy production, project economics, and grid constraints simultaneously.

Key features include

• Single-workflow decision-making for solar and storage
  
  
• Utility-scale solar and colocated solar + storage design
  
  
• Layout and storage sizing optimization
  
  
• Energy production and economics modeling
  
  
• Grid constraint and point-of-interconnection analysis

Input from more than 150 hours of conversations with specialists across 60+ organizations directly shaped RE PILOT's capabilities. Combined with RE STACK, collaboration with over 80 companies during beta testing surfaced the critical design considerations project teams weigh every day. This extensive engagement ensured RE PILOT can solve real-world project challenges while reflecting the latest technology and market dynamics.

"Early in a solar or solar + storage project, teams need to identify the best direction for several key parameters such as system configuration, equipment selection, and site conditions," commented Cam Connolly, Design Manager, McCarthy Building Companies.

"Using RE PILOT, we are able to rapidly evaluate this wide range of alternatives and identify promising concepts aligned with the client's priorities that can be carried into PVFARM for deeper, multidisciplinary engineering and validation. Throughout our partnership, PVFARM has shown a commitment to working hand-in-hand with us to solve complex design challenges through advanced solutions that balance performance, cost, schedule, constructability, and long-term project value."

"Teams need to evaluate energy, economics, and reliability together. Decisions around battery sizing, facility location, and grid constraints are deeply connected, yet they're often evaluated separately in different tools and spreadsheets," said Maksim Markevich, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of PVFARM.

"With RE PILOT, we're giving developers and EPCs one workflow to answer the questions that used to take weeks: what's the optimal solar and storage configuration, what's the best layout, and what's the right storage size."

As solar-plus-storage colocation becomes standard practice across utility-scale development, project teams face a widening set of interconnected decisions including battery sizing, facility placement, grid constraints, and economics. These traditionally required separate tools and manual back-and-forth, but RE PILOT closes that gap, giving developers and EPCs a single place to pressure-test thousands of configurations before committing to detailed engineering.

About RE PILOT

RE PILOT is a utility-scale solar and energy storage design platform from the team at PVFARM. It allows users to explore millions of viable project configurations by sweeping ILR, GCR, pitch, racking systems, modules, inverters, battery size and grid export constraints. By automatically identifying the configurations that deliver the best trade-offs between LCOE, energy, cost and project value, solar EPCs, developers, and others involved in origination work can speed their decision-making and simplify downstream detailed design. Learn more at repilot.pvfarm.io.

About PVFARM

Launched by a team of builders, PhDs, engineers, and software experts, PVFARM is building the decision intelligence layer for utility-scale solar. The platform brings layout, electrical, structural, civil and financial workflows into one connected design system, helping project teams align around the same numbers, constraints, and tradeoffs early enough to shape outcomes earlier. With more than half of top U.S. utility-scale EPCs using PVFARM as part of their core workflow, PVFARM is helping drive the solar industry make better decisions — from first layout through long-term performance.

Learn more at pvfarm.io or www.linkedin.com/company/pv-farm.

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FAQ

• Who uses RE PILOT?
  • RE PILOT is designed for utility-scale renewable energy developers, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors, energy storage integrators, and consultants responsible for planning and optimizing utility-scale solar and colocated solar-plus-storage projects.
• How does RE PILOT improve solar and storage project decision-making?
  • RE PILOT consolidates layout optimization, storage sizing, placement, energy production, and project economics into a single workflow, replacing the manual, spreadsheet-driven process of evaluating these factors separately. Teams can evaluate thousands of configurations while accounting for grid constraints and interconnection limits.
• How is RE PILOT different from traditional solar and storage design tools?
  • Traditional workflows evaluate battery sizing, facility location, project economics, and grid constraints in separate tools, making trade-off analysis slow and difficult to reconcile. RE PILOT unifies these decisions so teams can compare configurations side by side, earlier in development.
• Does RE PILOT support both utility-scale solar and colocated solar-plus-storage projects?
  • Yes, RE PILOT is built to optimize both standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) projects and colocated solar-plus-storage projects within the same workflow.
• Can RE PILOT work alongside RE STACK and PVFARM's detailed engineering workflow?
  • Yes, RE PILOT is part of PVFARM's expanding suite of tools for utility-scale renewable energy design. Configurations identified in RE PILOT can move forward into RE STACK for BESS layout generation and PVFARM's detailed engineering workflow.
• Why do early-stage configuration decisions matter for utility-scale solar and storage projects?
  • Early decisions around storage sizing, facility location, layout, and grid constraints influence project economics, buildability, and long-term performance. Evaluating more configurations before detailed engineering helps teams identify better-performing projects while reducing costly redesign work later in development.

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