Designing Projects That Win Procurement: Advanced Solar, Storage & Interconnection Evaluation

Winning a procurement is not just about having the right site. It is about having the right design, the right financial model, and the right interconnection cost estimate ready at the same time, before the bid deadline.  

Most development teams are still assembling those three things from separate tools. Land prospecting is in one platform, layout design is in another, financial modeling is in a spreadsheet, and interconnection documentation is assembled manually. Each handoff introduces errors and costs time that competitive procurement windows do not allow.  

At EVOLVE 2026, Felix Ignacio Perez Cicala (Principal Software Developer, Enverus) walks through how integrated tools change that dynamic: from land prospecting and site evaluation in PRISM to RatedPower design/layout and financial optimization to automated interconnection analysis, all in a single ecosystem that keeps design decisions, energy yield, and project economics in sync throughout the development cycle.    

What you will learn:  

• How to use PRISM^® to screen land against slope, substation proximity, grid saturation, and economic constraints before committing to a parcel
• How RatedPower batch simulations let you evaluate DC-AC ratios, pitch values, and layout configurations simultaneously, with financial impact visible in real time
• How to model standalone and hybrid battery systems, iterate on dispatch strategies, and incorporate forecasted pricing data to improve confidence in economic projections
• How automated single-line diagram generation and interconnection documentation reduce the manual effort of utility submissions
• How integrating interconnection costs into the financial model from the outset eliminates the pricing risk that surfaces late in a traditional workflow
• How repowering and hybridization of existing assets can be modeled within the same ecosystem