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Intelligently design and optimize behind-the-meter systems

Reduce demand charges. Improve resiliency. Integrate EV charging. Model CHP.

HOMER Grid combines engineering and economics to rapidly perform complex calculations enabling you to compare design outcomes and consider options for minimizing project risk and reducing energy expenditures.

With one powerful model you can:

  • Maximize savings
  • Minimize cost
  • Increase resilience
  • Optimize EV charging stations
  • Reduce carbon emissions
  • Stack values to increase return on investment
  • Explore combined heat and power

Save time with robust accuracy you can trust

Only HOMER Grid allows you to include any combination of components and gives you the total energy cost for each possible system.

You have the information you need to choose the the best and least-cost system.

Win sales and earn confidence with insightful proposals

Instantly produce customized, client-facing reports that present key aspects of your analysis including cost comparisons and economic value streams. You, your customer and your stakeholders can move forward with confidence.

Ready to get started? Take advantage of our complimentary 21-day trial or buy your license now. If you need help with your analysis, talk to an expert.

Find the least-cost distributed generation system in critical use cases

Demand Charges

Demand Charges

Optimize behind-the-meter storage and generation and reduce demand charges.

EV Charging

EV Charging

Integrate and optimize electric vehicle charging stations.

Resilience

Resilience

Increase ability to supply power during extended outages.

Heat and Power

Combined heat and power

Explore the value of combined heat and power.

3 easy ways to get started, tailored to meet your needs

Get your license now and maximize ROI on your projects.

Try HOMER Grid today. Download a complimentary, fully functional 21-day trial with sample project files and access to support documents and our support team.

Find out how HOMER Grid and our experts can help a little or a lot – from feasibility studies to design and certification.

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Intelligently reduce the peak power you buy from the utility each month. Determine the best mix of resources for the least-cost solution, and design a system with the highest possible rate of return.

HOMER Grid makes it easy to confidently select or build the right tariff for your specific location and needs. HOMER Grid lets you accurately create and model virtually any utility tariff from around the world, including tariffs with time-of-use and seasonal rates, contracted demand rates, tiered rates, and much more. Users in the US, Canada, and Mexico can draw from Genability’s database of over 35,000 commercial and industrials utility tariffs. Our experts are also available to create almost any tariff you need for accurate modeling.

Instantly produce customized, client-facing reports that present key aspects of a proposed system, offer clear cost comparisons, and outline economic value streams. Save time and earn customer trust with insightful system overviews.

The HOMER storage model is the most accurate and sophisticated model on the market, based on the input of thousands of users. HOMER Grid accurately models battery life and performance for the duration of your project, so you know exactly what to expect.

Design an optimal hybrid energy system that reduces the increase in utility costs and demand charges from on-demand or fleet EV charging.

One plus one plus one can equal more than three if you optimize to stack value. Understand your ROI from combining value from demand charge reduction, energy arbitrage, and self-consumption.

Combine the power of your favorite solar modeling tool, HelioScope or PVSyst, with HOMER Grid for more accurate modeling and more bankable results.

Leverage powerful optimization and proven results with the most sophisticated software tool available:

 
  • Determine the best resource mix to deliver the least-cost solution
  • Understand and demonstrate the value of demand charge reduction, energy arbitrage, and self-consumption
  • Design an optimized system with the best rate of return
  • Model electric vehicle charging to minimize the costs of increased energy demand
  • Understand the value of participating in incentive and demand-response programs
  • Access thousands of library components to easily model a system to meet your specific needs
  • Quickly create simple or complex utility tariffs for any country in the world
  • Save time and increase sales with insightful customer-facing proposals that demonstrate system value

Project location loads the appropriate solar resource database or you can import custom data.

Results show winning system architecture in graph and table format.

Printable project summary compares current system with proposed system in an easy to read format.

Learn more about HOMER Grid:

“We use HOMER for all of the tender packages we distribute and require that project proposals include their HOMER model.”

--David Edwards, Horizon Power, Australia

Put the power of UL Solutions HOMER software and advisory services to work for you.


Map shows locations of the more than 250,000 users enabled by HOMER software in over 190 countries around the globe

UL Solutions HOMER Grid is built-on the trusted HOMER software engine used by more than 250,000 energy professionals in over 190 countries, plus the independent engineering expertise of our large advisory team. HOMER software optimizes the value of your hybrid power systems and energy storage whether the system is standalone, grid-connected, behind- or in front-of-the-meter.

Products include HOMER Pro for determining the best, least-cost solution for microgrids; HOMER Grid for designing behind-the-meter, grid-connected systems that save on electricity bills, reduce peak loads, and lower carbon footprints; and HOMER Front to maximize project IRR in utility-scale energy storage whether standalone or combined with other energy resources such as solar or wind.