Assess: We use your energy and bill data, weather-station data and satellite imagery to find the optimal solar system for your site.
Procure: We help you procure from our pre-qualified supplies on the Beam Solar marketplace or use your in-house procurement process.
Operate We ensure your project is delivered on time and on budget and continuously monitor its operation to ensure it performs optimally.
We use satellite imagery to map the maximum solar system for your site(s). We then model the performance of hundreds of solar systems utilising the data from your electricity smart meter, electricity invoice and local solar output.
Extremely accurate projections of costs and benefits of every solar system configuration for your site. Drill down to see what the system will do on any hour of the year. An intuitive process to help you find the best system for your needs.
Start here if you are considering solar but want to see recommendations and their costs and benefits.
Create a comprehensive brief for your preferred system and invite our registered suppliers to submit initial offers. We evaluate all initial offers with our best-practice evaluation tools and recommend suppliers for shortlisting.
The best suppliers in the industry, rigorously vetted by us, submitting initial offers for your system. Detailed evaluation of initial offers presented in our platform so you can clearly understand who is offering the best solution.
Start here if you know what system to get and want initial offers from our registered suppliers.
Completing these tasks before contracting gives you the certainty that your project can go-ahead in the form you want and get the best price when contracting.
We facilitate completion of these tasks with the costs passed through to the successful supplier.
You can choose a best and final offers round or a weighted reverse auction for suppliers to contract your system. We host shortlisted suppliers at your site for inspection and run a detailed final offers qualification to score suppliers on all the important details in their solution.
Contract as an outright purchase, power purchase agreement (PPA), finance or lease. The best suppliers in the industry competing to win your project. Alignment of your needs with supplier contracts, ensuring you get the best value system, balancing quality and price.
You are ready to purchase and want to use the best-practice procurement process to get a quality solution at a great price.
We provide project and contract management during the installation and for larger projects offer owner’s engineer services during the installation. We ensure real-time monitoring of your system is installed and use the data to ensure optimal system performance.
Your project delivered on-time, on-budget and to the highest quality – no variations, delays or corners cut. Peace of mind that your system is performing with live performance visible from our apps as well as measurement and verification of energy savings against your energy bills.
Start here if you are considering solar but want to see recommendations and their costs and benefits.
| Assess | Traditional | Beam Solar |
|---|---|---|
| Number of solar / battery business cases modelled | 1 | > 100 |
| Results and recommendations | Static PDF Report | Dynamic Online Platform |
| Time to complete assessment | Weeks | Seconds |
| Accuracy of capital cost | Estimate | Guaranteed |
| Typical cost of service – $ | Thousands | Much Less – Get Started |
| Procure | Traditional | Beam Solar |
|---|---|---|
| Participating Suppliers | Arbitrary | Pre-registered and qualified |
| Project brief | Limited – supplier decides what’s best | Detailed – choose what you want |
| Evaluation of offers | Slow, painful, subjective, opaque, desktop and a shambles | Fast, objective and transparent |
| Process | RFP only – only one price submitted | Online process for multiple bids |
| Supplier selection | Price and subjective criteria | Weighted BAFO or Reverse Auction |
| Contract negotiation | Additional time and money | Integrated into process |
| Operate | Traditional | Beam Solar |
|---|---|---|
| Installation | Hope for the best | Contract & Project Management |
| Operation | Inverter based monitoring | Independent real-time monitoring |
| Savings | Hope your bill goes down | Measurement and verification of energy savings against each bill. |
“Although I have worked with various consultants in a range of specialties, it is my first within the energy field. Beam's clarity and simplification along sound engineering lines was refreshing. To design a good system for our needs, meeting the changing incentives, requires an unbiased and thorough knowledge of the industry. We found this in Beam Solar. Our decision to use a consultant has been confirmed.”Wilbert Thomas – Facilities Manager, Sayfa Group
“Beam Solar did a great job of helping us get solar installed at our site. They were articulate, provided great insights and got the job done we needed”Ashley Palmer – CEO, Alba Edible Oils
“Beam Solar was instrumental in getting our two 600 kW ground-mounted solar projects approved and successfully implemented. Beam Solar was great to work with and guided us through every step of the process to ensure the Council achieved a successful outcome.”Victor Papierniak-Wojtowicz - Water and Sewer Manager, Cobar Shire Council
“Beam made it easy to get pricing and source a reliable installer for a commercial solar PV installation in another state to where I am based and was not able to visit.”Anthony Pesec – General Manager, iES.
“Beam Solar were very responsive and of great benefit to our organisation. Without them we would have ended up with an overpriced, underperforming system. The information they provided was clear and concise which made it easy to progress to the correct solution”Geoffrey Swinbourne - State Manager, Zenith Interiors
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