ST. ROMAIN, France, Jul 8, 2025 – Trace Software unveils the latest developments in archelios PRO, its online photovoltaic design solution, enriched with powerful features for self-consumption, storage and modeling.
Conceived for design offices, installers and developers, archelios PRO facilitates the conception of all sizes of installation, 100% online, with rapidity and reliability.
With this new version, get ready to push the boundaries of your solar projects.
Intelligent storage: an unrivaled battery simulator
Our storage calculator reaches new heights: more accurate, more complete, it is now the most advanced photovoltaic storage simulator on the market. Study your batteries’ behavior and optimize your return on investment from the design phase.
- Set the depth of charge and discharge
- Consider battery life, cycles, and degradation
- Simulate charging from the grid
- Analyze self-consumption and storage gains separately
- Built-in advanced technical factors: C-Factor, Faradic efficiency, charge and discharge currents
Virtual storage: both simple and flexible
Easily add any type of virtual battery offer to your projects. Our module adapts to all configurations, with or without a capacity limit, and automatically calculates savings generated.
Maximum productivity: save time with every click
- Instant duplication: Copy your PV zones, obstacles, or exclusion zones with one click to speed up your complex projects.
- Custom layout templates: Automatically apply your preferred layout configuration to every PV zone.
- Automatic wiring: Effortlessly cable your installation as soon as an inverter is applied, ideal for fast-paced feasibility studies.
- Seamless modify inverters: Change your existing inverter configuration without losing your wiring layout.
Optimize your projects with advanced features
- Smart trackers: Orientate trackers according to terrain constraints to optimize the GCR and performance.
- Specific consumption profiles: benefit from standard profiles to refine your self-consumption studies; Administrative, Commercial, Culture, Educational, Undifferentiated, Industrial, Residential and Sports.
- Favorites Manager: Order and prioritize your favorite references for even faster access.
And much more…
- New Meteonorm 8.2 stations (2024 update)
- Add comments to photos in the PDF report
- Import basemaps, textures, and 2D images from the SketchUp plugin
- DXF export now allows all modules to be numbered
- Enhanced FAQs and help buttons
- SketchUp 2025 compatibility
- Diverse corrections
About Trace Software International
For more than 30 years, Trace Software has been designing software for the design and operation of electrical and solar installations for building and industry. Trace Software’s solutions cover the needs of electrical and photovoltaic projects, from design to operation and network dimensioning. The company is also present on the digital mock-up market with a complete platform for the design of electrical installations in Open BIM.
Based in Saint-Romain de Colbosc in Seine-Maritime, Trace Software distributes its solutions in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia via distributors and subsidiaries in Germany, Spain, Morocco, and China. For more information, visit https://www.trace-software.com.
