**7.4 Aurora solar**

Aurora Solar presents unique software that allows solar photovoltaic engineering design as well as gives planned management performance, and gives reliable facilities for sales and customer services that may be helpful for solar PV installers as well as financiers. Aurora Solar software is found by Aurora Christopher Hopper and Samuel Adeyemo in 2013, headquarters situated in San Francisco, California, USA [41].

Key Features:

• Efficient and Simple Design Interface:

Users can utilize comprehensive shade measurement and shading analysis rightly in solar PV applications, effective components for system designs and fabrication also to create ID and 2D diagrams automatically. Through this simulator all generated designs are checked automatically for electrical constraints, NEC rule compliance and industrial interpretations and applications.

• Automated and easily accessible Financial Report:

This simulator provides rapid findings for project's feasibility, streamline models and most reliable financing formations. Financial models enable the project's competency for accurate profile as well as make the dynamic visualizations and accuracy reliable of financial information like payback periods, cash flows and bill savings.

## **7.5 HelioScope**

In solar industry, HelioScope is a famous platform for fabrication, designing highperformance solar panels. It has distinct features that are necessary for researcher's interest in solar community. Many candidates have utilized this simulating software to fabricate and design solar PV arrays. It has distinct features as an easily accessible solar design tool. This contributes the following features given below [42–44].


*Performance Evaluation of Solar Cells by Different Simulating Softwares DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.111639*

