Utility-scale & Cross-cutting — Multi-product
Win more projects with faster, more credible energy analysis
HOMER software is the industry-standard analysis platform for energy consultants and EPCs—enabling your team to deliver bankable feasibility studies, system designs, and investment cases across every market segment.
Your clients expect world-class analysis—delivered on a tight timeline
Energy consultants and EPCs must serve diverse clients across every market segment: remote mines, military bases, commercial facilities, data centres, utilities, and developers. Each project requires different tools, different expertise, and different deliverables—but they all share one requirement: rigorous, credible techno-economic analysis delivered fast enough to win the engagement. The right software platform is your competitive advantage.
Critical pain points
Why consulting delivery pressure keeps rising
Diverse Client Base
Monday it's an off-grid mine in Peru. Wednesday it's a C&I solar + storage project in Texas. Friday it's a utility-scale BESS in Australia. You need one platform that handles them all.
Speed to Proposal
Clients expect feasibility study turnaround in days or weeks, not months. Slow analysis means lost engagements and frustrated clients.
Credibility with Stakeholders
Your analysis must satisfy the client, their board, their lenders, and sometimes their regulator. The tool behind the analysis matters.
Team Scalability
Growing your practice means training new engineers quickly. Complex proprietary tools slow onboarding and create key-person risk.
One platform for every energy project type
HOMER software is used by more than 250,000 energy professionals worldwide, making it the most widely adopted energy modeling platform in the industry. For consultants and EPCs, this means your team works with the tool that clients recognise, lenders trust, and new engineers can learn quickly. Three products cover every project type: HOMER Pro for off-grid and microgrid systems, HOMER Grid for behind-the-meter commercial and industrial projects, and HOMER Front for utility-scale hybrid developments.
Core modeling advantages
Built for confident decisions
HOMER Pro
Deliver feasibility studies for remote communities, mines, military bases, telecom towers, and island utilities. Design and optimise microgrids of any size and complexity.
HOMER Grid
Model behind-the-meter solar + storage for commercial and industrial clients. Optimise against their actual utility tariff to show exact bill savings, demand charge reduction, and resilience value.
HOMER Front
Analyse utility-scale hybrid projects for developer and utility clients. Model multi-year dispatch, revenue streams, and bankable financial outputs for project finance.
Additional Capabilities
- + All Pro modules: Hydro, Biomass, CHP, Advanced Storage, Advanced Load, Multi-Year, MATLAB Link, Advanced Grid—unlock any capability your project requires.
- + 50,000+ tariff database: HOMER Grid includes the most comprehensive U.S. utility tariff database, saving hours of rate structure research on C&I projects.
- + Team licensing: Multi-seat licenses and training packages designed for consulting firms. Onboard new engineers in days, not weeks.
- + Engineer Hours: When you need extra bandwidth, hire a HOMER specialist to work alongside your team on complex projects.
Use Case: A Consulting Firm's Diverse Project Portfolio
The Situation
A mid-size energy consulting firm with 15 engineers serves clients across North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa. In a typical quarter, their active projects include a remote mining camp power study in northern Ontario, a C&I solar + storage proposal for a food distribution centre in New Jersey, a hospital microgrid feasibility study in Florida, and a utility-scale BESS analysis for a developer in ERCOT.
What Was Modeled
The firm uses all three HOMER products across their portfolio. For the mining camp: HOMER Pro with Multi-Year and Advanced Storage modules models a solar-wind-diesel-battery hybrid over the 10-year mine life. For the food distributor: HOMER Grid imports the NJ utility tariff and models rooftop solar + battery for demand charge reduction. For the hospital: HOMER Grid with CHP module models resilience + cost savings. For the ERCOT BESS: HOMER Front models 25-year dispatch against nodal price forecasts.
The Outcome
By standardising on the HOMER platform, the firm reduces analysis time by approximately 60% compared to their previous mix of spreadsheets and single-purpose tools, delivers outputs that clients and lenders recognise and trust, and onboards new engineers in 3–5 days instead of 3–5 weeks. Annual software investment: a fraction of the revenue from a single additional engagement won by delivering faster proposals.
Real-World Applications
| Location / Client | Project Type | Key Result |
|---|---|---|
| ARUP | Global engineering firm using microgrid software for client feasibility studies | Reduced time and effort by over two-thirds; enabled rapid response analysis product |
| Worley, SmithGroup, Mazzetti | Major engineering firms using microgrid design software for diverse clients | Industry trend: top consulting firms standardising on microgrid analysis platforms |
| Mayfield Renewables | Renewable energy consultancy using design tools for client projects | Demonstrates mid-market consulting firm adoption |
| HOMER Bibliography | 1,000+ peer-reviewed publications using HOMER across all sectors | The strongest credibility proof for consulting deliverables |
Recommended HOMER Products
HOMER® Pro + Grid + Front
The industry-standard energy analysis platform
The only platform where one team can model off-grid microgrids (Pro), C&I behind-the-meter systems (Grid), and utility-scale hybrid projects (Front)—all in one consistent software ecosystem. Recognised by clients, lenders, and regulators worldwide.
Key Modules: All available modules across all three products
Supporting Services
Training
Get your team proficient in HOMER quickly. Available as individual, team, or firm-wide training packages—in-person or virtual, customised to your project types.
Learn More →Engineer Hours
When your pipeline exceeds your team's capacity, hire HOMER specialists by the hour to work alongside your engineers on deadline-critical projects.
Learn More →Ready to give your team the industry's most trusted analysis platform?
HOMER software helps consultants and EPCs deliver faster, more credible energy analysis across every project type. Start with a free trial, explore multi-seat pricing, or talk to our team about firm-wide licensing.