Red Frontier Industries builds some of the world's fastest-deployable solar and battery power plants, aiming to remove electricity as a bottleneck across industries. The company offers an interactive sizing calculator that uses 19 years of hourly solar data to recommend the cheapest solar-plus-battery configuration for a given load and uptime target. Its mission is to provide rapid, data-driven clean energy solutions for customers seeking to buy power or participate in constructing these facilities.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Traditional solar and battery power plant development can be slow to design, finance, and construct, creating a significant bottleneck for industries that need reliable, low-carbon electricity quickly. Complex sizing decisions often rely on outdated data or over-simplified models, leading to either overbuilt systems with wasted capital or undersized plants that fail to meet uptime requirements.
Solution
Red Frontier Industries accelerates the deployment of solar and battery power plants by making the engineering design process nearly instantaneous and data-driven. Their public-facing build calculator uses 19 years of high-resolution hourly solar radiation data from the European Commission's PVGIS tool to determine the most cost-effective combination of panels and battery storage for a specific load and target uptime. Users can click on an interactive map to select a location Secretary, and the tool automatically sizes the system based on local solar resource characteristics , factoring in flat-mounted panel orientation. This approach enables rapid feasibility assessmentsasiest and transparent cost estimations, removing a major bottleneck in the early-stage planning of renewable energy projects.
Target Audience
Primary customers are industrial energy buyers, project developers, and commercial facilities seeking to procure reliable, low-cost solar and battery power with minimal planning delays, as well as partners interested in co-developing new generation capacity.
Features
- Interactive web-based calculator that sizes solar and battery builds using 19 years of hourly solar data from the PVGIS database.
- Map-based interface that allows users to select a location and instantly see average solar power potential, shaded by intensity.
- Cost optimization engine that reports the cheapest system size per kW of load, based on user-input panel price per watt and battery price per kWh.
- Configurable target uptime parameter that dynamically adjusts the recommended system to meet strict power availability requirements.
- Flat-panel assumption defaults, providing a conservative baseline and simplifying geometry for rapid initial estimates.