Valentin Software and SunReports Close the Loop on Solar System Performance

San Francisco, CA – July 28, 2010 – Valentin Software, Inc., the global market leader in solar PV and solar thermal design and simulation software, and SunReports, Inc., a provider of performance monitoring solutions for residential and small commercial solar installations, have teamed up to close the loop on estimation tools and provide valuable performance data to the solar industry.  SunReports will provide actual performance data to customers whose PV and solar thermal systems were designed and estimated using Valentin’s software programs.

 Valentin Software’s design simulation software has been validated, tested, and used to design and plan thousands of installations in over 70 countries throughout the world.   The company’s easy-to-use design tools enable users to optimize each system’s design to maximize the performance and return on investment. Using a complex simulation, the software automatically calculates the performance over the expected life of the system.

 “We understand the value of predictive data as seen in the thousands of installed systems designed with our software,” says Paul DeKleermaeker, North American General Manager for Valentin Software. “The SunReports feedback loop is a natural and valuable extension to the prediction capabilities our customers rely on us for, thus allowing them to identify system operations issues in advance.”

 SunReports will complement the Valentin Software’s simulation results by providing actual performance data that can be compared with the Valentin estimated performance.  This complete solution provides solar installers with unprecedented visibility into system performance, both predicted and actual, via the SunReports Installer Portal, in addition to helping installers identify system installation and maintenance requirements early on.

 Thomas Dinkel, CEO of SunReports comments, “With SunReports and Valentin’s state-of-the-art product line, installers now have the ability to rate the performance of their entire installed-base against their performance predictions to customers.  This ability to show highly accurate actual vs. predicted performance data on the same visual provides installers with a valuable and powerful differentiation tool when going to market.”

 About Valentin Software

Valentin Software has been providing solar professionals with industry leading design, simulation and sales software programs for over 20 years. The company’s powerful, yet easy-to-use, software tools for solar professionals are used by customers in over 70 countries throughout the world for the development of residential, commercial and utility scale projects.

www.valentin-software.com

 Paul DeKleermaeker

Valentin Software, Inc.

(760) 931-5681

info@valentin-software.com

 About SunReport

SunReports, Inc., provides ‘ZERO-configuration required’ performance monitoring solutions that compare actual vs. estimated system performance for renewable energy installations in the residential and small business/commercial markets. http://www.sunreports.com

Thomas A. Dinkel

CEO, SunReports

(415) 816-3016

tdinkel@sunreports.com

Christine Bennett

Antenna Group for SunReports

(415) 977 1941

Christine@antennagroup.com