PVcase
PVcase is an end-to-end solar project development platform combining site selection, AutoCAD-based PV design and physics-driven yield modelling across four products, helping developers, engineers and EPCs move from raw land to construction-ready layouts and bankable production estimates.
What is PVcase?
PVcase is a software platform for developing solar power projects, published by the Lithuanian company PVcase, UAB. It covers three consecutive stages of a project — finding the site, designing the plant, and estimating how much energy it will produce — and packages them into four products that can be bought together or separately.
PVcase Prospect is the cloud entry point. It carries hundreds of ready-made GIS layers, accepts KMZ and Shapefile imports by drag and drop, and screens land around points of interconnection. It maps substations, transmission lines and distribution networks, preloads hosting-capacity maps for more than forty United States utilities, computes buildable area with setbacks and exclusions, runs permitting and environmental checks, and manages a project pipeline. Higher tiers add parcel-level zoning analysis, landowner phone records, pipeline and fibre mapping, wholesale electricity price analysis covering LMP, basis risk and 12x24 profiles, data centre mapping, and an AI-powered community sentiment layer built from news and public records.
PVcase Ground Mount runs inside AutoCAD and turns a chosen site into a construction-ready utility-scale layout. It creates and optimises frames, applies placement rules, adapts to real topography, and analyses slope, collisions and piling. On the electrical side it handles stringing, preliminary and detailed design, cable sizing and voltage drop, and 2D and 3D cabling, then exports single-line diagrams and bills of materials. It also covers shading and irradiance, AC- or DC-coupled battery storage, and a QuickYield estimate for fast scenario comparison.
PVcase Roof Mount applies the same AutoCAD approach to commercial and industrial rooftops. PVcase Yield closes the loop with physics-based simulation, advanced ray tracing and digital-twin modelling, run in parallel on cloud infrastructure, producing 3D reports for lenders and stakeholders.
The vendor claims designs are produced up to 90% faster with Ground Mount and at least 80% faster with Roof Mount, and cites a customer who halved development time. Traction figures differ across the site: the homepage claims over 1,900 customers in 88+ countries and more than 4 TW designed annually, the about page 1,800 customers in 80+ countries, and the homepage FAQ 1,500 customers in 75+ countries. Named customers include AES, ib Vogt, RWE, Voltalia and Iberdrola. Access is commercial only, with no self-service signup and no public price list.
What it does
- Screen and rank candidate land parcels around points of interconnection
- Assess buildable area, setbacks, zoning, permitting and environmental constraints
- Study injection and offtake capacity and estimate grid upgrade costs
- Generate utility-scale PV layouts that follow real terrain inside AutoCAD
- Automate commercial and industrial rooftop layouts, cable routing and shading analysis
- Simulate energy production with ray tracing and digital-twin modelling
- Export single-line diagrams, bills of materials and 3D reports
When to use PVcase / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if PVcase is the right fit.
When to use PVcase
- Utility-scale solar developers screening land around the right points of interconnection
- Design engineers and EPCs producing terrain-accurate, construction-ready PV layouts in AutoCAD
- GIS specialists handling land, grid and environmental data across a large project pipeline
- Commercial and industrial rooftop designers and sales teams turning roof data into sellable systems
- Energy yield engineers who need physics-based production estimates that lenders will accept
When not to use PVcase
- Buyers who need transparent published pricing or a self-service signup, since every path runs through a sales demo
- Teams without an AutoCAD licence, which Ground Mount and Roof Mount both require
- Homeowners and residential installers, as the platform targets utility-scale and commercial projects
- Organisations working exclusively outside the United States, where several premium data layers offer no documented coverage
- Buyers who need contractual documents up front, as no product terms of service or data processing agreement is published
How to use PVcase
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request a demo through the vendor's booking page, since no self-service account creation exists
- Agree a scope with the sales team: number of seats, which of the four products, and geographic data coverage
- Sign in to PVcase Prospect in the browser to start screening land and points of interconnection
- Import your own site files as KMZ or Shapefile, or work from the built-in GIS layers
- Analyse buildable area, zoning, permitting, environmental constraints and grid capacity to shortlist sites
- Install Ground Mount or Roof Mount on a workstation running AutoCAD, following the Help Center installation guide
- Generate and iterate the PV layout against real terrain, then run slope, collision, piling and shading checks
- Run QuickYield inside Ground Mount for a fast production estimate, or push the design to PVcase Yield for full simulation
- Export deliverables: single-line diagrams, bills of materials, GIS exports and 3D reports
- Use the Help Center, PVcase Academy or support@pvcase.com for training and technical assistance
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Covers site selection, design and yield in one connected workflow instead of separate tools
- Designs follow real terrain rather than an idealised plane, which reduces surprises during construction
- Substantial time savings are claimed and repeated: 90% faster with Ground Mount, at least 80% with Roof Mount
- Deep grid and land data, including parcel, zoning, LMP, pipeline and fibre layers across the United States
- Outputs are directly usable downstream: single-line diagrams, bills of materials and lender-facing reports
- Interoperates with AutoCAD and PVsyst, both industry standards
- SOC 2 Type I and Type II achieved on PVcase Prospect, with a public SOC 3 report and a named subprocessor list
Cons
- No public pricing at all, so comparison is impossible without going through a salesperson
- No free plan and no visible self-service trial
- Ground Mount and Roof Mount require a separate AutoCAD licence and a local installation
- No product terms of service published, leaving data ownership, service levels and termination undocumented
- No data processing agreement mentioned, which is unusual for an enterprise-targeted platform
- No hosting country or region declared, while the privacy policy flags possible transfers outside the EEA
- Traction figures contradict each other across three pages of the same site
Pricing & Plans
PVcase does not publish any price. The homepage FAQ states plainly that no complete price list is available online because packages are customised for each client, and every pricing page ends on a "Talk to sales" button rather than a figure. No free plan and no free trial are offered on the pricing pages. The dedicated pricing page describes four variables that shape a quote: team size and seat requirements, which of the four products are in scope, enterprise needs such as API access, custom integrations and dedicated support, and the geographic scope of the data layers. Some capabilities remain marked "Custom quote" even inside a purchased tier. Academic licences exist through the education programme, again without published terms.
- GIS library and imports
- grid infrastructure mapping
- distribution hosting capacity maps
- parcel data and search
- buildable area analysis
- permitting matrix and environmental analysis
- project pipeline management
- reporting and GIS exports (price on quote)
- everything in Essentials plus PVcase-supported GIS data integration
- zoning analysis
- landowner phone records
- preliminary solar layouts
- pipeline and fibre mapping
- power market analysis
- distribution grid mapping
- data centre mapping and community sentiment
- Professional scope with injection and offtake capacity studies included
- utility-scale power market analysis is listed as not included (price on quote)
- single published tier covering mechanical
- civil and electrical design
- shading and irradiance
- BESS
- QuickYield
- BOM exports and PVsyst handoff (price on quote)
- separate pricing plans page
- no tier names or amounts published
- separate pricing plans page
- no tier names or amounts published
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how PVcase handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR implementation is concrete and explicitly documented. PVcase, UAB states that it is established and operates within the European Union and that its processing follows EU and Lithuanian data protection law. It names itself as data controller, cites its legal bases by article (6(1)(a) consent, 6(1)(b) contract, 6(1)(c) legal obligation, 6(1)(f) legitimate interest), and summarises the full set of data subject rights, including the right to complain to a supervisory authority. Transfers outside the European Economic Area are covered by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, or by an adequacy decision under Article 45. Breaches are notified to the Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate. One contact address, legal@pvcase.com, handles every request. No data protection officer is named, and no Article 27 representative is designated, which is consistent with an EU-established controller.
Who owns the data?
The privacy policy identifies PVcase, UAB, registered at Bokšto str. 6 in Vilnius under entity code 304839853, as the data controller for the personal data it processes in connection with its services. One exception is stated: for the landowner outreach feature, PVcase describes itself as a service provider hosting the tool that does not independently collect, store or further process landowner personal data. Beyond that, the site publishes no terms of service, so nothing on the website states who owns the project data, designs, layouts or reports that customers create in the platform. That question is left entirely to the commercial contract negotiated with the vendor.
Reuse rights
No product terms of service is published on the site, so nothing states whether or how customers may reuse the outputs they generate. The privacy policy covers personal data only. It lists purposes explicitly: performing the service contract, technical support, customer relationship management, marketing communications, recruitment, whistleblower reports and academic partnerships. The legal bases cited are contract performance, legal obligation, legitimate interest and consent. PVcase states that it collects no special categories of personal data, and its United States supplement states that it neither sells nor shares personal data as CCPA and CPRA define those terms. The site is silent on whether customer data feeds AI model training.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
PVcase does not declare where customer data is hosted. The privacy policy states only that the company is established and operates within the European Union, and that its processing follows EU and Lithuanian data protection law. It names Google LLC and Microsoft Corporation as the cloud infrastructure providers supplying hosting, storage and computing for its services. Separately, it lists service providers established outside the European Economic Area whose involvement may result in data being transferred out of the EEA: Amazon Web Services, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Mixpanel and Gainsight, all United States entities apart from the last two, which are named without a country. Those transfers are said to rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, or on an adequacy decision under Article 45 of the GDPR. In practice this documents a transfer mechanism rather than a hosting location. Buyers who need a specific jurisdiction, or a residency commitment, will have to obtain it contractually.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting PVcase.
- No published price means no way to budget or benchmark without engaging a salesperson, and pricing power sits entirely with the vendor
- Two of the four products depend on a third-party AutoCAD licence, adding cost and a dependency the vendor does not control
- No product terms of service and no data processing agreement are published, so data ownership, service levels and exit terms must all be negotiated blind
- No hosting country or region is declared, while the privacy policy confirms possible transfers outside the EEA to providers including AWS, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Mixpanel and Gainsight
- The SOC 2 attestation is claimed for PVcase Prospect only, so do not assume it extends to Ground Mount, Roof Mount or Yield
- Automated layouts and yield figures can breed misplaced confidence: results still rest on input data quality and should be reviewed by a qualified engineer before they reach a lender or a construction crew
- Several premium data layers are described as nationwide United States coverage, so teams working elsewhere may find the analysis thinner than the marketing suggests
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Mixed. PVcase Prospect is a cloud application with nothing to install: you sign in and start working. Ground Mount and Roof Mount are heavier, requiring an AutoCAD licence and a workstation installation, with an installation guide and recommended system specifications published in the Help Center. The commercial path adds friction of its own, since access begins with a demo and a contract rather than a signup. Complex GIS data integration is handled by PVcase experts on higher tiers, PVcase Academy covers training, and technical support is advertised as available around the clock.
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Should you pick PVcase?
PVcase is a serious, narrowly focused piece of professional engineering software rather than a general-purpose assistant. Its value comes from joining three stages that solar teams usually handle in separate tools: screening land around viable points of interconnection, drawing a plant that follows the real terrain, and simulating what that plant will actually produce. The AutoCAD foundation of Ground Mount and Roof Mount, the PVsyst export path and the depth of the grid and land data make it credible for utility-scale and commercial work, and the financial backing behind the company — more than USD 123 million raised and an acquisition absorbed — suggests it will be around for the projects it is used on.
The reservations are mostly about what the site does not publish. There is no price anywhere, no free plan, no self-service entry point, and every route ends at a sales conversation, which makes the platform hard to evaluate on a budget. More importantly for a buyer, there are no product terms of service, no data processing agreement, no declared hosting jurisdiction and no statement about whether customer data is used to train models. The SOC 2 attestation covers PVcase Prospect specifically, not the full platform. The site also contradicts itself on basic traction numbers, quoting 1,900, 1,800 and 1,500 customers on three different pages, and dangles a free trial in one page's meta description that appears nowhere else.
In short: a strong fit for solar developers, design engineers, EPCs and GIS teams who already work in AutoCAD and need terrain-accurate designs and bankable yield figures. Anyone outside that profile, or anyone who needs contractual and hosting commitments settled before signing, should plan on getting those answers directly from the vendor rather than from the website.
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