Automation for solar installers
Enquiries, system design, grid registration and subsidies — the paperwork behind every installation.
Does this sound familiar?
Demand is there; the bottleneck is processing. Every installation creates a chain of design, quote, grid registration, meter installation, commissioning and registration — with deadlines nobody can afford to forget.
- Enquiries arrive without the data needed for a system design
- Quotes are put together by hand from design software, price list and text templates
- Grid registrations run through portals with different forms for each grid operator
- Registration in the market master data register is caught up on rather than scheduled
- Customers ask about the status because the chain takes months
What we actually do
Take enquiries completely
Roof shape, orientation, consumption, meter number and grid operator are asked for directly with the enquiry — saving the round of follow-up questions before every design.
Quotes from design data
A draft quote is created from the number of modules, battery size and component list. The specialist planner checks and approves it.
Track deadlines and registrations
Grid registration, meter installation, commissioning report and registration get dates and reminders instead of sitting in an Excel list.
Keep customers up to date
When processing takes months, a status update is the difference between waiting calmly and calling every week.
Starting point
Automation after process analysis
From enquiry to a registered installation
This is how the process runs today — and this chain is exactly where automation comes in.
- Enquiry with roof, consumption and meter data
- Design and economic viability
- Create and approve the quote
- Order, grid registration with the grid operator
- Mounting and electrical installation
- Commissioning and meter installation
- Registration in the market master data register
- Handover with documentation and monitoring
Systems typically used here
This is the existing landscape an automation connects to. Listed is what is widespread in this industry — it says nothing about which system you use.
- Design software such as PV*SOL, Solar-Planit or Sunny Design
- Grid operator portals for registration and commissioning
- The Federal Network Agency’s market master data register
- Trade software for quotes and invoices
- Inverter manufacturers’ monitoring portals
What matters most here
Deadlines in the market master data register
Registration is required within one month of commissioning; missing it can cost the feed-in tariff and ultimately hits the customer. That is where automation prevents real financial damage — rather than saving time. The deadline therefore belongs linked to commissioning, not to a reminder in the calendar.
Frequently asked questions
Every grid operator has a different portal.
That is exactly why preparation pays off here: the data is captured once in a structured way and prepared in each grid operator’s format. Filling in the portal partly remains manual — the gathering part before it disappears.
Can the system do the system design?
No, and it shouldn’t. The design is specialist planning with liability. What is automated is what comes before and after: data capture, quote, deadlines, documentation.
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