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Generate winning solar and energy storage
proposals in minutes.
Streamline your solar and energy storage energy sales process and create professional proposals with confidence by leveraging our industry-leading solar and energy storage modeling software.
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The go-to modeling and proposal energy storage software for high achieving solar and energy storage sales teams.
Explore how top solar and energy storage sales teams use ETB Developer to generate professional proposals that win more energy business.
Precisely calculate and analyze up-to-date utility costs, energy savings, and project economics in a transparent and defensible way.
Quickly compare payment options, forecast system costs, and calculate incentives – all the data your client needs to feel confident in making a quick buying decision.
What you get:
- Up-to-date utility rates
- Quick financial analysis
- Utility costs, energy savings, and project economics calculations
Effortlessly model multiple scenarios and present the most optimal solutions with our industry-leading solar and energy storage simulation engine.
Save time and respond to client requests faster by quickly duplicating designs and using templates to streamline your management workflow
What you get:
- Industry leading energy storage simulation engine
- Up-to-date utility rates and cost data
- Best-in-class modeling tools
Impress your clients and close more deals with fully personalized and branded proposals based on our extensive library of professional sales templates.
Elevate your brand, reinforce your professionalism, and help your company stand out from the competition.
What you get:
- Access to winning professional templates
- Easy to use personalization and branding interface
- Fully custom template builder
Gain complete visibility into how prospects are interacting with your solar and energy storage proposals. Easily track engagement and get ahead of deal killing objections.
Get notifications when prospects open your proposal and detailed analytics on the time spent on each section. With this knowledge, you can tailor follow-up strategies and seize opportunities to close more deals.
What you get:
- One-step interactive proposal generator and publisher
- Proposal engagement and insights
- New activity notifications
Organize, prioritize, and engage leads in one centralized platform built specifically for the needs of solar and energy storage sales teams.
Easily access lead history, including company information and a timeline of every touchpoint. Quickly view solar and energy storage assets and get detailed analytics and proposal insights all in one place.
What you get:
- Lead management built for solar and energy storage
- Integration with interactive proposals
- Streamlined sales process
Utility Rates
Ensure precision and accountability with up-to-date utility rates
The only solar and energy storage solution with an in-house utility rates team, ensuring direct accountability and precision of hundreds of thousands of utility rates.
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Frequently
Asked Questions
Can ETB Developer model different financing options?
Yes, our proposal management software supports various financing structures, including cash purchases, power purchase agreements (PPAs), loans, and leases, allowing users to compare financial outcomes
Does ETB Developer include real utility rates and incentives?
Yes, the software has a built-in database of utility rates, incentives, and tariffs that are updated regularly to ensure accurate financial projections.
Can ETB Developer model standalone energy storage projects?
Yes, ETB Developer can analyze standalone storage, solar and energy storage, and grid services applications, allowing users to optimize system size and dispatch strategies
Does Energy Toolbase offer training and support for ETB Developer?
Yes, Energy Toolbase provides training sessions, webinars, and customer support to help users maximize the platform’s capabilities.
Is ETB Developer cloud-based?
Yes, ETB Developer is a web-based platform, allowing users to access projects from anywhere with an internet connection.
How does ETB Developer account for demand charge management?
The platform models demand charge reduction strategies by simulating battery storage dispatch to lower peak demand and maximize cost savings.
Is the ETB Developer modeling and analysis platform suited to utility-scale projects?
ETB Developer is a solar and energy storage modeling software product built to handle front-of-meter and behind the meter projects, from the development of large solar farms and battery storage initiatives to producing financial scenario-based projections for hybrid energy investments.
Organizations can also access personalized, professional-grade modeling that reflects their clients’ specific objectives and requirements and create unlimited energy proposals within a single software platform.
Can users enter customized assumptions?
ETB Developer is a solar and energy storage modeling software product built to handle front-of-meter and behind the meter projects, from the development of large solar farms and battery storage initiatives to producing financial scenario-based projections for hybrid energy investments.
Organizations can also access personalized, professional-grade modeling that reflects their clients’ specific objectives and requirements and create unlimited energy proposals within a single software platform.
Does ETB Developer integrate with other battery providers and an energy management software?
Does Energy Toolbase offer support services with the implementation of ETB Controller?
Certainly. Our role is to simplify the complexity of energy storage management, installation of systems, and deployment alongside the modeling and avoided cost analysis that comes along with ETB Developer to limit risk.
This is backed by our best-in-class customer support team, which offers comprehensive software training and assistance throughout the entire process from project conception into operation.
What are the primary benefits of ETB Developer?
ETB Developer offers a wealth of advantages as a software created specifically for sophisticated operational and financial modeling. These include:
- The ability to import real power usage hour-by-hour or based on fifteen-minute intervals, or create realistic full-year usage estimates, without waiting for perfect data during early-stage projects
- Access to more than 110,000 real utility rate structures, without needing to enter multiple rate rules manually
- Integrations with verified battery data from leading storage hardware providers, generating reliable performance assumptions
Whether used independently for project modeling and projections or within our package of software solutions, ETB Developer will simulate optimal dispatch strategies and optimization solutions, adding value to projects from the initial proposal stage onward.
How does ETB Developer account for assumptions about asset degradation?
Who is ETB Developer designed for?
There are numerous use cases for ETB Developer’s enhanced predictive analytics and modeling, including for developers of commercial solar and energy storage projects, consultants reliant on advanced financial modeling, financiers, enterprise corporations,Independent Power Producers (IPPs), and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) firms.
Matt C.
Regional Sales ManagerAsk one of our experienced
solar and energy storage experts.