Flat-fee pricing. No sales cycle.

We publish prices because we want you to know if we fit your budget before you spend an hour on a demo. Every other inspection platform hides this behind "contact sales" — we won't.

Solar PV · Thermal screening
$60 / MW per scanbilled on the MW actually flown and delivered · minimum $2,800 per scan · no platform fee

A human-verified list of warm modules in the flown area: each finding with its temperature difference and stated uncertainty, paired thermal and visible crops, a GPS marker inside a stated ±15 m disc, a map, a spreadsheet, and a statement of what was not screened. Where your DC schedule is on file, each finding names its circuit.

This is a triage list, not a census. It does not count modules, estimate lost production, or inspect areas outside the flown footprint. It is what you send a crew out with between full inspections.

Example: a 100 MW scan is $6,000; a single 4 MW block is the$2,800 minimum. The minimum applies to anything under about 47 MW flown. MW here is the rated capacity of the panels in the flown blocks (modules × module watts), the basis the industry prices on.

Solar PV
$6 / MW / year+ $1,200 per inspection, plus the per-MW rate below
Capacity bandRate on MW in that band
First 10 MW$160 / MW
Next 10 – 50$100 / MW
Next 50 – 100$70 / MW
Next 100 – 250$45 / MW
Above 250 MW$60 / MW

Rates are marginal — each applies only to the MW inside its own band, so a larger site is never charged the first-band rate on all of it. Big sites still get the volume discount on what they pay per MW all-in, because flight-day and analysis cost is mostly fixed; the above-250 rate is held at the screening rate so a full inspection is never priced below a screening scan of the same site. Minimum $2,800 per inspection. Dashboard, audit log, multi-tenant isolation, daily backups, and support included. No setup fee. No demo gate.

Plane-of-array irradiance is measured on site with a calibrated handheld pyranometer on every flight — not modelled, not pulled from satellite — and a flight that misses the IEC TS 62446-3 §6.2 conditions floor does not become a report. Included at no charge.

Commissioning & acceptance inspections are flown to IEC-grade ground sample distance and carry a signed conditions and conformance statement: the instrument and its calibration certificate, readings taken during the capture window, and an explicit disclosure of anything not conforming. Priced at the rates above with a 21% uplift on the per-MW component — the measured flight-time cost of the tighter capture — plus $450 for the conformance package.

Example

50 MW portfolio · 2 flights / year

$13,900 / year

(50 × $6) + 2 × ($1,200 + 10 × $160 + 40 × $100)

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Substation
$2,400 / year platform fee+ $3,500 / substation flown

Includes NERC CIP asset classification, audit log with 90-day retention, dashboard, support. Compliance services (CIP audit-prep workflows) billed separately by scope.

Example

4 substations flown / year

$16,400 / year

($2,400 + 4 × $3,500)

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Free first inspection
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Solar (5 MW+) or substation (any size) inspection. We fly your site, deliver the report, walk you through the findings on a call. No subscription required to claim it. No card on file.

We can't do every site for free — the qualification gate is a quick conversation to confirm capacity, location, and vertical. Message us with your site details.

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Common questions

What's included in the platform fee?

Dashboard, audit log, multi-tenant isolation, daily backups, support. No per-seat charges. No per-report fees.

Who runs the inspection?

We do. Terranova's Part 107 crew flies your site with our operator app and delivers ranked findings and reports to your portal. Raw imagery is processed on-site; only findings and reports reach the cloud. You never operate anything.

Can I change inspection count mid-year?

Yes. Inspections are billed as they happen, not pre-paid. The $/inspection rate is the same whether you fly once or ten times.

Do I have to sign a multi-year contract?

No. The platform fee is annual; renew or cancel each year. If you want a multi-year discount, ask the founder.