Kickstart solar and data center projects with top-tier data.
ORCaS Inc. delivers superior data earlier in your project’s lifecycle, so you can avoid the costly chain reactions triggered by low-fidelity datasets and unknown sources. Decisions based on unreliable data result in poor initial estimates, unnecessary rework, last-minute design changes, and the embarrassment of having to revise information already passed on to downstream clients.
We know your projects ramp up quickly, so we’ve automated the process to ensure you have high-quality data from the outset — resulting in cleaner handoffs, fewer restarts, minimized field errors, and ultimately, the confidence to make the best decisions and seize the most promising opportunities from a position of certainty.
ORCaS provides tools that are computationally robust but simple to use, empowering your teams with accurate and precise data starting on day one.
Ensure initial stakeholder understanding and alignment on project outcomes.
Improve project efficiency and reduce costs and churn.
Get to final project designs in fewer iterations.
Avoid discovery of design and engineering problems late in the project lifecycle.
Solar Site Analysis
Delivering the highest-resolution data and adaptable solar designs, ORCaS Solar Site Analysis ensures compliance, transparency, and precision — empowering stakeholders and engineers with verifiable insights they can trust.
Highest-resolution processing
Optimized servers run calculations on large datasets at the highest resolutions — up to 2500x the resolution of other common industry tools.
Real-time input data
Surface data is pulled from reliable data sources at the moment your project starts.
Compliance by design
Meets regulations and manufacturer specs through verified documentation and field-tested designs.
Advanced optimization
Extensive flexibility enables user-selectable optimization around key parameters and handles novel project constraints.
Global adoption
Trusted and used in solar projects worldwide.
White labeling
Bespoke analysis for transparent inclusion in your plan sets.
Raw and processed data
Access to soils data, hydrologic data, processed LiDAR or other topographic files, and other input data.
Verifiable outputs
Engineers can verify figures at every step, ensuring stakeholder confidence.
Hydrological Studies
As solar projects expand into more challenging terrain and regulators impose strict runoff standards to prevent pollutants, developers face increasingly complex hydraulic conditions. ORCaS Hydrological Studies — powered by automated analysis, high-resolution data, and advanced hydrologic modeling — deliver early insights that enable you to optimize site layouts, streamline permitting, mitigate risks, and meet tough regulatory requirements before breaking ground.
Data Center Siting and Analysis
Streamline your data infrastructure project pipeline with our powerful data sourcing and computation. ORCaS Data Center Analysis tools help you pinpoint optimal locations for data center development, factoring in infrastructure, network analysis, and land parcel attributes.
Add ORCaS to your engineering team
Created with the purpose of streamlining workflows that once took engineers hours or days to complete, ORCaS solutions were initially developed in a solar design and engineering context to address common data integrity issues found in many industry-standard tools. Over time, these solutions have been systematically refined, automated, expanded, and strengthened in response to evolving methodologies, regulatory shifts, and changing design approaches — ensuring they remain both comprehensive and resilient. Applied to thousands of projects worldwide, from initial design through construction, ORCaS has consistently delivered substantial improvements in early-stage solar optimization, reduced manual engineering time, and enabled on-spec project completions.
Today, as a transparent partner to major national and international renewable energy and data infrastructure developers and manufacturers, ORCaS continues to provide reliable, high-value solutions that meet the rigorous demands of a rapidly changing industry.