Aurora Solar has announced platform updates expanding beyond solar into home electrification across the US, UK, and Europe. The company is adding home electrification options to proposals, enabling sales professionals to quote HVAC, EV chargers, and battery storage alongside solar installations for US installers. New features include prepaid leases and flexible financing options, improved drone mapping available globally in late September, and heat pump modelling for Germany. Aurora has launched in the UK with expanded LIDAR coverage and MCS-compliant proposals. The updates also include improved storage modelling with unified solar and storage workflows, and peak-shaving modelling for commercial and industrial installers globally. Aurora Solar's platform has been used to design over 20 million solar projects worldwide, with more than 7,000 organisations using the service.

Aurora Solar expands beyond solar, adds home electrification, more flexible financing, and a growing international footprint. * 12 hrs ago * 0 Aurora Solar today announced platform updates across the U.S., U.K., and Europe, reaching beyond solar + storage and into the electrified home. The 2026 Aurora Solar Snapshot found that 71% of U.S. homeowners are interested in solar. These advances help turn that interest into action, giving installers and homeowners flexible financing, accurate proposals, a low-pressure way to buy, and insight into the potential for an electrified home. The updates include: * Home electrification integrated into proposals: Empowers sales pros to seamlessly quote energy optimizations like HVAC, EV chargers, and battery storage in the same sales proposal as solar. Available to U.S. installers. * Prepaid leases and financing flexibility: Provides sales pros with more financing options, from prepaid leases to prepaid PPAs and beyond, to put solar in reach for more customers. Available to U.S. installers. * Embedded Leads, built on the technology that powers the Aurora Solar Marketplace: The Aurora Solar Marketplace is where homeowners get personalized solar and storage estimates and compare local installers, all before sharing their contact information. Embedded Leads builds on that technology to deliver installers a lead capture tool they can plug into their own website to create intent and convert more of their web visitors into customers. Available to U.S. installers. * Sharper drone mapping: Aurora's advances in drone mapping let installers turn scans directly into a design and quote, without ever leaving the platform. The latest version will be available globally in late September. * Heat pump modeling for Germany: Reps can now design a home's renewable heating system alongside solar and storage, all within one proposal. Live for eligible installers across Germany. * Aurora, built for the U.K.: Aurora is now available in the U.K. The product builds on Aurora's 3D design accuracy and includes expanded LIDAR, imagery, and parcel data coverage to enable AI designs, Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS)-compliant proposals, and automated electrical diagrams. * Improved storage modeling: With simplified and unified solar and storage workflows, sales and design teams can now share the same data and components, so what gets sold matches what gets built. Real-time performance, bill impact, and pricing show up as the system comes together, and are presented through the same simulations and clean, intuitive visuals. Available globally. * HelioScope storage for C&I installers: Peak-shaving modeling is now available for C&I installers, and storage now sits alongside design and financing in one platform. Available globally. "In the U.S., the industry just went through one of its toughest stretches in recent history, and in the U.K. and Europe, the industry is rapidly evolving. That's why our answer is to build more, not less, for the renewable energy community," said Charlie Herche, CEO at Aurora Solar. "We're investing across the whole Aurora Solar platform: home electrification, new financing, sharper drone design, and Aurora for the U.K. We are building the new shape of solar and electrification, giving installers the tools to succeed globally." About Aurora Solar Aurora Solar is the platform powering the energy revolution. The company puts the power of data, automation, and AI into the hands of every solar professional to make solar adoption simple and predictable. Aurora Solar's cloud-based platform has been used to design more than 20 million solar projects globally, and more than 7,000 of the industry's top organizations rely on it to streamline workflows and grow their businesses. Aurora Solar has been recognized by TIME as a Top U.S. GreenTech Company (2024-2026), named to the 2025 Inc 5000 & 2024 Deloitte Fast 500, and listed among Solar Power World's Top Solar Software & Monitoring Products in 2024. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more at: https://aurorasolar.com/ Media gallery

Aurora Solar integrates storage modeling into HelioScope software. By Martin McConnell June 16, 2026 Renewable energy data and automation firm Aurora Solar has made an update to its commercial and industrial solar design software HelioScope, adding integrated energy storage modeling capabilities. The web software aims to united solar design, storage, and financial cost-benefit analysis under one proverbial roof, Aurora Solar representatives say. With the new update, the web-native HelioScope becomes the world's first software solution purposefully built for commercial solar design, which can combine PV asset layout, production estimates, fiscal analysis, and storage modeling in one program. // ** advertisement **// "The solar market is being tested right now, and the companies that come out ahead will be the ones that make their teams faster and their numbers more defensible," says Sudeep Deshpande, COO at Aurora Solar. "That's exactly where we're investing. Storage is becoming the heart of the commercial deal, and we're bringing design, storage, and financials into one place so developers can move at the speed this market demands." The new energy storage modeling software comes at a critical time for that part of the solar industry, with storage and batteries sweeping the American solar market. Regardless of sector, storage options have swiftly moved from a luxury to a project necessity. Being able to model storage solutions, complete with performance and financial metrics, in just minutes, will push that even further. // ** advertisement **// Fulfilling Aurora Solar's vision. Design capabilities that once required three separate tools is now available in the same place, Aurora Solar officials say. Everything from layout to a lender-ready output can come together as part of the same workload. As Aurora officials put it, "when a client asks what a bigger battery does to the economics, the answer takes minutes, not days." The new software additions also pushes Aurora Solar's vision forward, helping to create a solar industry that is not only more efficient, but more resilient and fully adaptable to policy change. "These abrupt policy changes far from signal the end of solar," says Aurora Solar founder Chris Hopper. "If anything, this is the beginning of a new energy future, and a lot of the foundation - convincing people that solar is worth it - has been built... It's time to make solar policy-proof. We can't wait on Washington; we have to change the way we work." Hopper says that the industry must make "real changes," allowing solar firms to meet the market where it is, and where it's going. That means eliminating soft costs and project-wide uncertainties, he says, through means like the new HelioScope software. A preview of the new HelioScope software will be available at this year's Intersolar Europe trade show, June 23-25. Potential customers can sign up for a free trial of the program on its website. Share: