Solar sales and design platform provider Aurora Solar has announced new tools designed to help solar professionals estimate a homeowner’s holistic electrification and energy needs. The company claims the tools better enable its platform to address changes in utility policies and rising electricity prices when designing solar-plus-storage systems for consumers’ homes.

Aurora Solar’s 2024 Solar Industry Snapshot report claims that 10 percent of homeowners want to electrify their home before considering solar and 37 percent feel solar panels are more valuable when paired with whole-home electrification.

Aurora’s new capabilities include:

• Energy optimization: Estimators and designers can add any electrical appliance or energy efficiency solution like heat pumps, duct sealing, or EV charging to a homeowner’s energy load profile.
• Storage retrofit proposals: Design proposals that add panels or storage to existing photovoltaic systems.
• Comprehensive storage modeling: Optimize bill savings and energy independence with storage modeling for backup, self-consumption, or energy arbitrage.

“Aurora Solar is the industry’s leading solar partner, committed to the success of the solar community,” said Patrick Donahue, Chief Product Officer, Aurora Solar. “We understand the unique challenges solar professionals face when it comes to selling solar, as well as the confusion homeowners often have around electrifying their home and going solar,” said Patrick Donahue, chief product officer, Aurora Solar. “With Aurora’s new whole home energy tools, solar professionals and homeowners can partner to design a holistic clean energy solution, whether that means adding heat pumps, electric vehicles, more storage, or efficiency solutions as homeowners envision their electrified, resilient future home plans.”

Aurora will release its set of whole home energy management features throughout the summer, and comprehensive storage modeling is available now.