Why we built BESS Auto™
80% of renewable energy projects fail to launch. A significant barrier is the capital intensive nature of early-stage design and engineering.
Recognising this, Arche Energy, a leader in the renewable energy sector, developed BESS Auto™ – an intuitive, cost-effective software tool that streamlines BESS concept design and fast-tracks project feasibility assessments.
Ready to streamline your BESS project development?
BESS Auto™ outputs
Standard battery project design is often slow, manual, and fragmented. Developers spend days aligning layouts, financial models, and feasibility reports just to prepare for tendering or evaluate early stages of investment. BESS Auto™ is a game changer that delivers instant, high-quality, and fully integrated BESS concept designs.
What once took days now takes minutes, empowering developers to accelerate project pipelines, reduce design risk, and focus on winning more projects.
BESS Auto™ delivers instant, high-quality, and fully integrated BESS concept designs by automatically generating optimised site layouts tailored to project parameters, saving hours of manual drafting. Each layout considers site constraints, equipment specs, spacing requirements, and orientation logic to deliver a highly usable and technically sound design.
Detailed PDF and CAD outputs are ready to share with investors and stakeholders and seamlessly integrate into any design workflow. Whether it’s planning approvals or early-stage feasibility, BESS Auto™ outputs provide clarity, confidence, and a reliable path forward.
BESS Auto™ also offers the option of personalisation of layout options based on the constraints of the terrain, equipment selection or local regulations.
BESS Auto™ provides a comprehensive financial model that projects the performance of a battery project over its full lifecycle. It calculates key financial metrics like Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Levelised Cost of Storage (LCOS), enabling confident, concept-level investment decisions, helping you evaluate project viability with confidence.
Designed for real-world decision-making, BESS Auto™ incorporates capital costs, operating expenses, system degradation, and efficiency to provide a true reflection of project economics. Outputs are delivered in a fully editable and auditable Excel file, making it easy for developers and investors to review, modify, validate, and present the numbers required to move projects forward.
BESS Auto™ generates a Bill of Materials (BoM) tailored to a specific design layout, including key components like batteries, inverters, transformers, cabling, and civil works. Each item is quantified and categorised, giving a detailed overview of what each project requires.
These outputs are fed into the financial model to calculate CAPEX and OPEX for the plant and the levelised cost of storage (LCOS). These values can be adjusted by users as required. CAPEX estimates from BESS Auto™ reflect up-to-date market costs and are reported in both Excel and PDF formats, supporting early-stage budgeting, funding conversations, and supplier engagement without the time-consuming need for manual calculations.
Understanding the round-trip efficiency (RTE) at the concept level is essential for accurate financial modelling and performance forecasting. BESS Auto™ calculates the RTE of a project based on real system parameters and factoring in losses from inverters, transformers, cabling, and auxiliary loads using machine learning models that are continuously being improved.
By integrating this estimate into the early design workflow, BESS Auto™ helps you compare equipment configurations and identify where energy losses can be reduced for better returns.
BESS Auto™ provides a forecast of battery degradation over the project’s lifecycle, helping to understand how energy capacity and performance will decline over time. This estimate accounts for typical cycling behaviour, depth of discharge, and technology-specific characteristics, ensuring realistic long-term projections, allowing you to make more accurate IRR and LCOS calculations.
Modelling degradation early allows better assessment of the financial model and operational implications, such as reduced energy throughput, maintenance planning, and replacement schedules.
BESS Auto™ delivers instant, high-quality, and fully integrated BESS concept designs by automatically generating optimised site layouts tailored to project parameters, saving hours of manual drafting. Each layout considers site constraints, equipment specs, spacing requirements, and orientation logic to deliver a highly usable and technically sound design.
Detailed PDF and CAD outputs are ready to share with investors and stakeholders and seamlessly integrate into any design workflow. Whether it’s planning approvals or early-stage feasibility, BESS Auto™ outputs provide clarity, confidence, and a reliable path forward.
BESS Auto™ also offers the option of personalisation of layout options based on the constraints of the terrain, equipment selection or local regulations.
BESS Auto™ provides a comprehensive financial model that projects the performance of a battery project over its full lifecycle. It calculates key financial metrics like Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Levelised Cost of Storage (LCOS), enabling confident, concept-level investment decisions, helping you evaluate project viability with confidence.
Designed for real-world decision-making, BESS Auto™ incorporates capital costs, operating expenses, system degradation, and efficiency to provide a true reflection of project economics. Outputs are delivered in a fully editable and auditable Excel file, making it easy for developers and investors to review, modify, validate, and present the numbers required to move projects forward.
BESS Auto™ generates a Bill of Materials (BoM) tailored to a specific design layout, including key components like batteries, inverters, transformers, cabling, and civil works. Each item is quantified and categorised, giving a detailed overview of what each project requires.
These outputs are fed into the financial model to calculate CAPEX and OPEX for the plant and the levelised cost of storage (LCOS). These values can be adjusted by users as required. CAPEX estimates from BESS Auto™ reflect up-to-date market costs and are reported in both Excel and PDF formats, supporting early-stage budgeting, funding conversations, and supplier engagement without the time-consuming need for manual calculations.
Understanding the round-trip efficiency (RTE) at the concept level is essential for accurate financial modelling and performance forecasting. BESS Auto™ calculates the RTE of a project based on real system parameters and factoring in losses from inverters, transformers, cabling, and auxiliary loads using machine learning models that are continuously being improved.
By integrating this estimate into the early design workflow, BESS Auto™ helps you compare equipment configurations and identify where energy losses can be reduced for better returns.
BESS Auto™ provides a forecast of battery degradation over the project’s lifecycle, helping to understand how energy capacity and performance will decline over time. This estimate accounts for typical cycling behaviour, depth of discharge, and technology-specific characteristics, ensuring realistic long-term projections, allowing you to make more accurate IRR and LCOS calculations.
Modelling degradation early allows better assessment of the financial model and operational implications, such as reduced energy throughput, maintenance planning, and replacement schedules.
Powerful at every stage
of your project
Rapidly screen multiple sites before land acquisition decisions.
Assess the impact of planning constraints on project economics directly.
Compare technology options fast and with confidence.
Make rapid, independent tender evaluations.
Make smarter and more accurate design trade-offs during value engineering processes.
Forecast long-term financial performance with full lifecycle financial modelling.
Multi-site packages available.
Need more than one site design? Discounts available for multi-site purchases. Subscriptions are also available for a customisable BESS Auto™ solution.
Speak to our teamINTRODUCTORY OFFER
Single site*
$1,000 AUD per site
Unlimited outputs.
Offer ends 31/10/2025
*Terms and conditions apply.
MULTI-SITE OFFER
Up to 3 sites*
$2,500 AUD
Unlimited outputs.
Offer ends 31/10/2025
*Terms and conditions apply.
What’s included in the custom demo?
- Walkthrough of site layout, financial and efficiency outputs.
- Real project examples tailored to your sector.
- Time for Q&A with our technical team.
- Overview of pricing and licensing options.