Release history
The main features we have shipped:
what changed, who it helps and what it looks like.
264 releases
Pick Italiano from the menu, and your account remembers it.
The app now speaks Italian as well as English. Browsers set to Italian open in Italian on the first visit, and the language you pick is saved to your account, so it follows you when you sign in elsewhere. Dates, numbers and prices read the Italian way.
Chain specialists into one job, and review every hand-off.
Workflows link specialist chats into a guided sequence, from finding a site to designing the plant to checking its policy fit. Each step passes its result to the next agent as a receipt you can review and trim before it is sent.
CabotoItalian PV Site Scout & Wind Transport PlannerGroovePV Plant Optimization ExpertAnizaExpert in Italy's NZIA policy frameworkAriaRooftop BIPV Layout DesignerLumiBIPV Visualization ExpertEcoStorage Optimization ExpertVegaPV Project Finance AnalystLemmyPV Materials & Reliability ExpertQuinnPV Risk & Reliability ExpertAlexPV CapacitySpencerPV Module Price Outlook AnalystGive it a coordinate. The slope decides the layout.
Peyote starts from a coordinate rather than a boundary you have already drawn. It reads the elevation, sets aside land that is too steep, removes water, buildings and roads, and searches tilt, direction and how densely to build.
PeyoteTerrain-Aware PV Layout OptimizerHow much shade a harvest can take. Not on the public roster.
Demetra turns row spacing, tilt and mounting height into the light a crop loses over its growing season, then compares that with a global crop-response model built with Politecnico di Milano. A yield you can spare comes back as the densest layout that still respects it. Demetra is not on the public roster.
DemetraAgrivoltaic Crop-Shading Analyst7 releases
A new research specialist for replicating ProLight’s approaches in your district.
Hestia helps municipalities, housing providers, energy agencies and developers adapt the approaches demonstrated in the Horizon Europe ProLight project: stakeholder, funding, regulatory and ownership groundwork, shared district energy, social-housing renovation, renewable energy communities and ICT enablers. ProLight was a collaboration with Becquerel Institute Belgium.
Every step says why that specialist was picked, and every credit links back to their work.
Orion’s plan card now explains, under each sub-question, why it chose that specialist, with a link to chat with them directly. In the final answer, each specialist’s credit is a clickable pill that opens their full contribution, and earlier plans stay in the thread as frozen cards instead of disappearing.
Switch conversations mid-answer. Nothing stops streaming.
Every conversation now has its own address and its own live stream. Start a long answer, open another chat, and come back to find it finished. Refresh, share the link or use Back and Forward, and the same conversation reopens.
Each agent now has its own page, open to everyone.
Every public specialist has a page that says what it does, lists its capabilities and the plan that includes it, and offers example questions that open straight in chat. Search engines and AI assistants can read them too.
“reliabiliyty” still finds the reliability expert, and now spells it right.
The smart prompt bar already routed a misspelled word to the right specialist. Its match cards now show the term’s proper spelling, and a clear button or the Escape key resets it in one step.
Nova cites its sources claim by claim. Open the PDF at the exact passage.
Nova, our solar digitalization researcher, was rebuilt on a new retrieval platform shared by our research agents. Each claim in an answer carries a citation; open it and the source document appears at the cited page with the passage highlighted. Figures and tables from the documents appear inline.
Groove’s optimized layouts become a scene you can walk, fly and light by the hour.
Groove’s plant layouts now open as a 3D scene built from real modules, racks and tables, set in their surroundings. Move the sun through the day, watch trackers follow it, and walk or fly between the rows.
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In an Orion plan, each phase of her price analysis is named as it happens.
When Orion puts Priya in a plan, you no longer watch a spinner while she runs the numbers. Each phase of her price analysis is named as it starts, such as filtering polysilicon data or calculating trends, and her answer streams in as she writes it.
When a question needs a design or a simulation, Orion opens the right specialist.
Orion now knows which specialists do hands-on work, such as plant optimization, rooftop design and project finance. When a question needs one, it hands you over with an editable question instead of improvising. For research questions, it proposes a plan you can review, refine and run.
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Start typing, and the right specialists step forward.
One prompt bar routes your question across every specialist. As you type, it matches your words to the agents who know that topic, shows how well each one fits, and lets you ask Orion or go straight to a specialist.
2 releases
A parcel, its risks, and a first look at getting there.
Caboto works across Italy. It screens a parcel for eligibility, weather and hazard risk, and setbacks from power lines, substations and pipelines, and it can rank candidate sites. It also sketches a route for a wind-turbine blade from a port to a site.
The landing page will take a question with no account.
A visitor can type a question on the landing page and continue as a guest, without creating an account. Signing up is offered when they want to keep the conversation.
7 releases
Production in, then IRR, NPV, LCOE and payback.
Vega builds a project cash flow from a PVGIS production simulation: return, net present value, cost of energy, payback and debt cover across the project life. You set the country, the tariff and who owns the project; the starting figures come from the reference model of the Horizon Europe SEAMLESS-PV project.
Draw the site. Groove searches tilt and the gap between rows.
Draw a site boundary on the satellite map, or upload one, and Groove searches tilt and row spacing for a fixed or tracking plant. You get a two-dimensional layout and the financial figures next to it, from an optimization engine built with Politecnico di Milano. Walking through that plant in 3D comes later.
A photograph in, a finished BIPV picture out.
Upload a photo of a building, mark where the modules should go, pick a colour, and Lumi returns a render of that building with the modules in place. Ask for a different colour or a different coverage and it tries again.
Who does what, from development through decommissioning.
Polaris answers from the IEA PVPS Task 13 lifecycle framework: the phases of a PV project, the role that owns each activity, and how the work depends on what came before. It is there for anyone planning or reviewing a project.
A full-year heat-pump retrofit. Not on the public roster.
Hugo simulates a home hour by hour for a year, with a heat pump, heat storage, rooftop PV, a battery and gas backup. It reports the gas saved, the seasonal performance and how much of the solar power the house uses. It is available to selected organizations and is not listed on the public roster.
HugoHeat Pump Retrofit EngineerThe module price outlook, one question at a time.
Spencer answers from the Becquerel Institute’s PV module price outlook: quarterly price forecasts, cost stacks for TOPCon, heterojunction and back-contact modules, supply and demand through 2027, the raw materials behind the price, and how EU rules such as the Net-Zero Industry Act weigh on it.
Modules on the wall, and the shade from next door. Not public.
Vista finds a building’s walls, places modules on them, and lets you block out windows and doors. It checks which of those modules the surrounding buildings shade. It is not on the public roster for now: we are refining the designer and revising its access policy.
VistaFaçade BIPV Designer3 releases
Outline the usable roof on a satellite view and the layout follows.
Aria opens a live satellite view of a building. You draw the roof that can take modules, choose a module, and the layout is placed at real size, flush on a slope or tilted on a flat roof with space between the rows.
Encapsulants, degradation, and what an inspection can see.
Lemmy explains how module materials age, the ways they fail in the field, and which inspections can detect them. Answers stay inside published reliability research, including IEA PVPS Task 13. Lemmy was built with the Polymer Competence Center Leoben (PCCL), an Austrian polymer research centre, and from this release is on the public roster.
Recent coverage, with the articles named. Not on the public roster.
Atlas searches the web for recent solar news, reads the articles and answers with those sources named. It is not listed on the public roster.
AtlasWeb Search & Research3 releases
One question becomes a plan across specialists, then a single answer.
Orion takes a question that needs more than one specialist, shows a plan that names who it will ask, and returns their findings together. This first version is that plan card. Sending a design or a simulation to a hands-on specialist, and the prompt bar that matches as you type, come later.
Lifecycle practice for PV plants. Not on the public roster.
Vera answers from industry best-practice guidelines for building, checking, commissioning and operating a PV plant, including plants that add batteries. She is available to selected organizations and is not listed on the public roster.
VeraPV Plant Lifecycle ExpertPV and storage sized together, with the cash flow beside the result.
Eco sizes a battery against a PV array for a home or a commercial roof, then shows self-consumption and the cash result, including payback and the trade-off between cost and covering your own use. From this release it is open on public plans.
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How plants lose performance, and what that means for the investment.
Quinn advises owners, investors and inspection teams on degradation, the failures that matter, and how that risk sits in a bankability case. The answers draw on SolarBankability guidance and the reliability literature.
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Pick the specialist whose job the question actually is.
Three weeks later the roster had doubled, each specialist with a profile and a chat of their own. Aniza joined to read Italian policy, Finn to look at manufacturers and Nina to trace how policy moves the market. Priya took over component prices and Sam arrived to cover integrated photovoltaics, alongside Alex, Emma and Nova.
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One analyst becomes a small team you hire.
In October 2025 BecqSight became Solar Intelligence, and the single analyst became four specialists to hire. Alex kept the installed-capacity data and added a code interpreter, Maya tracked module prices, Emma followed the industry news, and Nova covered digitalization and AI across the PV value chain.
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One agent, one dataset, one question at a time.
Solar Intelligence started in July 2025 at the Becquerel Institute as BecqSight, a single PV market analyst: an AI agent that answered questions over our installed-capacity data and drew its own charts. Everything on this page grew from it.
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