The best solar proposal software in UAE use is not the one with the nicest cover page. It is the one that stops your sales team from sending a document the DEWA-enrolled engineer will reject on sight. A UAE proposal has a shorter path to failure than a British or American one: name a module that is not on the DEWA approved equipment list and the whole submission stalls, size a Shams Dubai system past annual site consumption and the payback you printed is wrong, quote a villa in Jumeirah against an unsubsidised tariff and you have overstated savings by a wide margin. Layer Arabic-language output for government and family-office clients on top, and the shortlist of platforms that genuinely work here gets short fast. Across the ten benched below, the one that handles the DEWA layer, the tariff layer and the Arabic layer without a paid add-on is SurgePV at roughly AED 4,770 per user per year on the 5-User Team plan.
Direct answer. The best solar proposal software in UAE for 2026 is SurgePV, at about AED 4,770 (US$1,299) per user per year on the 5-User Team plan. It filters the module and inverter database against DEWA approved-equipment status before the bill of quantities is built, models Shams Dubai net metering as banked credit rather than cash export, carries EtihadWE profiles for the northern emirates, exports Arabic and English proposals, and puts an 8,760-hour shading simulation behind every yield number. OpenSolar is the cheapest usable alternative for a solo villa installer.
This ranking is written for DEWA-enrolled contractors, EtihadWE-approved installers in Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah, C&I sales teams selling PPAs into free zones, and ESCO business development staff who send more than five documents a month. Every platform is scored on UAE compliance depth, commercial-structure support, Arabic capability, engineering credibility and cost per finished proposal in dirhams. Where a tool is weak, it says so, including for the tool that places first. The engineering-side companion to this page is our best solar design software in UAE ranking, which covers heat derating, dust soiling and simulation depth rather than the document itself.
What a UAE Solar Proposal Has to Carry
Five obligations decide whether a UAE proposal survives its first reading. None of them are cosmetic.
The DEWA approved equipment list. Under Shams Dubai, modules and inverters must appear on the equipment lists published by DEWA, and the application itself can only be lodged by a DEWA-enrolled solar contractor and consultant. Sales teams routinely quote whatever the distributor has in stock this month. If that SKU is not listed, the design engineer sends the proposal back, the client is re-quoted at a different price, and you have spent your credibility on a paperwork error. Proposal software that cannot filter its component database against approved status pushes that check to a human who will eventually miss it.
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Book a free SurgePV demo → Compare pricingShams Dubai, EtihadWE and the Honest Payback Problem
Two regulators, two tariff stories. DEWA runs Shams Dubai inside the emirate of Dubai. Etihad Water and Electricity covers Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain under its own application route and approved-contractor requirements, while Abu Dhabi’s large procurement runs through EWEC. A proposal built on one generic UAE export rate is wrong somewhere. The northern emirates in particular have their own connection steps and their own approved installer register, and a Dubai-format document resubmitted unchanged in Ajman does not transfer.
Banked credit is not cash. Shams Dubai is a net metering scheme in the older sense: surplus units are credited against future consumption rather than paid out. Systems are sized so annual generation does not exceed annual site consumption. That single rule breaks most imported financial models, which assume every exported kilowatt hour converts to money at a published rate. Oversize a villa system to 140 percent of load in a US-built tool and the proposal shows revenue that will never appear on a bill.
Subsidised tariffs make payback harder to write honestly. This is the part vendors avoid saying out loud. UAE residential electricity is cheap by global standards, with slab structures and, for Emirati nationals in Dubai, a subsidised rate that lowers the effective cost per kilowatt hour further. When the displaced tariff is low, the payback on a villa system stretches. Any proposal tool that assumes a European or Australian retail rate will produce a four to six year payback that the customer’s own bill contradicts. The commercial slab is higher, which is precisely why the UAE market skews toward warehouses, factories, schools, hotels and free-zone tenants rather than homes. Your proposal software has to be able to print a long payback without the document falling apart, because on a villa the honest number often is long, and the real sale is a hedge against tariff drift plus a sustainability commitment.
Arabic output. English carries most private-sector deals. It does not carry every one. Government entities, semi-government landlords, family offices and older private owners often want a document in Arabic, and a right-to-left proposal is not a font swap. Numbers, tables, charts, page furniture and signature blocks all have to reflow. Very few platforms in the global proposal market do this at all, and the ones that do usually offer a partial template set. In tender-heavy segments the ability to submit Arabic and English side by side is a genuine differentiator rather than a nice extra.
Commercial structures. A C&I deal in the UAE is frequently not a cash sale. It is a power purchase agreement where a developer owns the asset and the tenant buys energy at a fixed rate per kilowatt hour, or an ESCO arrangement where savings are shared against a measured baseline. Those documents need a tariff escalation curve, a term length, a buyout schedule and a performance guarantee, none of which appear in a residential savings template. Read the PPA and LCOE glossary entries if your team is moving from cash quotes into these structures for the first time.
📘 Regulation note
Under Shams Dubai only a DEWA-enrolled contractor and consultant may lodge the connection application, equipment must appear on DEWA's published approved lists, and modules and inverters must hold [IEC 61215](/glossary/iec-61215), [IEC 61730](/glossary/iec-61730) and IEC 62109 certification as applicable. Surplus generation is banked as credit, and sizing is capped against annual site consumption. Northern-emirate projects follow Etihad Water and Electricity's own process instead. Confirm the current lists and thresholds on the DEWA portal before a bill of quantities leaves your office.
The 5-Point UAE Proposal Bench
This is the frame used to rank every platform below, and you can run it yourself during a trial. Each axis scores 1 to 10 for a maximum of 50.
- DEWA and EtihadWE compliance depth. Approved-equipment filtering, contractor and consultant fields, Shams Dubai banked-credit logic, northern-emirate profiles, IEC certification flags on the bill of quantities.
- Tariff realism. Slab-based commercial and residential rates, subsidised versus unsubsidised handling, escalation assumptions, self-consumption modelling for a site that runs air conditioning through the peak.
- Commercial-structure support. PPA and ESCO templates, tariff escalation curves, buyout schedules, performance guarantees, multi-year cash flow for a CFO rather than a savings chart for a homeowner.
- Document craft and language. White-label branding, Arabic and English export, interactive web version, e-signature, and a technical annex an engineer will actually read.
- Cost per finished proposal in AED. Annual licence plus every required add-on divided by realistic monthly volume.
Axis 3 is where the UAE ranking separates from the UK and US ones. A tool that is superb at residential cash quotes can be nearly useless here, because the deals that close are commercial and the buyer is a facilities director or a CFO comparing your energy rate against DEWA’s.
Top 10 Solar Proposal Software Platforms in UAE Compared
Pricing is 2026 published or reseller-quoted, converted at roughly AED 3.67 to the US dollar. Treat it as a planning figure rather than a quotation.
| # | Platform | Indicative AED price | Key capability | Best for |
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| 1 | SurgePV | AED 4,770/user/yr (5-user team) | DEWA equipment filtering, Shams banking logic, Arabic export, 8,760-hr shading | Contractors and EPCs sending 5+ proposals a month |
| 2 | Aurora Solar | USD $135/user/mo Basic, $220 Premium, billed annually (~AED 5,950 to AED 9,690/yr) | Most polished customer-facing document in the category | Groups with US templates already in place |
| 3 | OpenSolar | Free core platform; API Access and Connectors chargeable from 16 Apr 2026, rates not published | Free residential quoting with e-sign | Solo villa installers and new entrants |
| 4 | ARKA 360 | India list price only (₹46,000 to ₹1,00,000/yr plus GST); UAE pricing not publicly listed | Fast quote to proposal with strong 3D visuals | Small and mid-size Gulf installers on budget |
| 5 | The Solar Labs | Sits under Arka360; no separate published price | Volume residential and small C&I throughput | Teams importing an Indian sales motion |
| 6 | Enact | USD $279/mo for 2 users on annual (~AED 12,290/yr for the pair) | Financing and lifetime savings storytelling | Sellers leading with monthly payment |
| 7 | Pylon | Per project: USD $4.00 Standard, $10.00 Pro (~AED 14.70 to AED 36.70) | Quoting joined to hardware procurement | Installers reconciling quotes to stock |
| 8 | QuickEstimate | ~AED 1,500/user/yr | Solar quoting plus follow-up in one CRM | Sales-led firms buying design elsewhere |
| 9 | Sunbase | From USD $59/user/mo (~AED 2,600/yr); higher tiers not published | Pipeline and lead routing with basic proposals | Firms whose bottleneck is process, not design |
| 10 | Zoho CRM plus Zoho Sign | US$24/user/mo billed annually, US$288/yr (~AED 1,060) | Generic quote, template and e-signature stack | SMEs with a strong admin and no design need |
Two observations before the detail. First, only the top entry encodes UAE regulation natively, which is why every other option leaves a spreadsheet or a checklist between your designer and your client. Second, only three of the ten sell a straightforward per-seat licence, and among those that publish a seat price the spread from bottom to top is roughly 11x, so for a two-person Sharjah villa outfit the correct answer genuinely sits near the bottom of the price column.
1. SurgePV
What it does best. SurgePV treats the UAE as a first-class market inside the proposal itself rather than as a currency setting. The component database can be filtered against DEWA approved-equipment status before the bill of quantities is generated, so the SKU that reaches the client is one the engineer can actually submit. The financial engine models Shams Dubai as banked credit against annual consumption rather than as cash export, and it carries EtihadWE profiles for the northern emirates, so a Ras Al Khaimah warehouse and a Dubai villa do not share one invented national tariff. Slab-based commercial rates are supported, which matters because a factory crossing into a higher consumption band is where most of the genuine savings live.
For C&I, the platform builds PPA and ESCO style outputs with a tariff escalation curve, term length and multi-year cash flow, which is the document a facilities director will forward to finance. Proposals export in Arabic and English with right-to-left layout, and the proposal builder keeps the technical annex attached to the same model that produced the yield figure, so the shading study, the single-line diagram and the savings table cannot drift apart. Behind every number sits an 8,760-hour module-level simulation using Gulf hourly weather with configurable dust soiling, which is the difference between a guarantee you meet and one you argue about in year two. The generation and financial tool exposes those assumptions rather than hiding them in a default.
Pricing. About AED 4,770 (US$1,299) per user per year on the 5-User Team plan, so roughly AED 23,850 for five seats. Individual seats cost more. Free trial with no card.
Who it suits. DEWA-enrolled and EtihadWE-approved contractors, C&I sales teams selling into free zones and industrial areas, and ESCO developers who need the same model to produce both an engineering pack and a client-facing document.
Honest weaknesses. The Arabic template library is real but thinner than the English one, so a team submitting Arabic-first to government entities will spend time building templates rather than picking them. SurgePV is a younger brand in the Gulf than Aurora or OpenSolar, so there is a smaller pool of UAE staff who already know the interface when you hire. It is not a CRM, so lead routing, WhatsApp follow-up and pipeline reporting still need a second tool. Its ESCO measurement and verification module is lighter than a dedicated energy performance contracting platform, so a large shared-savings deal with a measured baseline will still need a specialist model beside it. And for an installer doing three villas a year, the licence is not defensible against a free tier. We use SurgePV on our own solar EPC work, so weigh this ranking accordingly and run the bench yourself.
2. Aurora Solar
What it does best. Aurora produces the most polished customer-facing document on this list, refined against enormous US residential volume, with strong automated design and mature storage modelling. If your proposal competes on presentation against a local contractor’s Word template, Aurora wins that comparison outright.
Pricing. Aurora publishes US dollar prices: Basic US$135 per user per month billed annually and Premium US$220, so about AED 5,950 and AED 9,690 per user per year at AED 3.67 to the dollar. Five Premium seats are US$13,200 a year and five Basic seats US$8,100. LIDAR modelling, bankable shade reports and battery modelling sit on Premium, and plan sets are a separately priced service rather than a plan inclusion.
Who it suits. International groups extending into Dubai with Aurora templates, training and a sales playbook already built.
Honest limitations. The UAE regulatory layer is absent. There is no DEWA approved-equipment filter, no Shams Dubai banking logic, no EtihadWE profile and no Arabic proposal output, so your team maintains all of that inside a template. LIDAR roof capture, one of its headline features, has patchy Emirati coverage and often degrades to manual tracing. Premium is the most expensive published seat on this list, but Basic is not: at US$1,620 a year it undercuts a SurgePV Individual seat at US$1,899, and for a firm that only needs a polished residential document that is a real saving worth stating plainly. Our Aurora Solar alternative comparison covers the switch.
3. OpenSolar
What it does best. A genuinely free core design and proposal product funded by hardware referral margin, with decent residential templates, e-signature and a low barrier for a new contractor. For a one-person villa business in Sharjah, it removes the entire software line item.
Pricing. The core platform is free, for any number of users. OpenSolar has said that API Access, charged per project on creation, and Connectors, charged as a flat monthly fee, become chargeable from 16 April 2026, but it has not published those rates and they vary by geography. So a small UAE team pays nothing today and cannot yet be quoted a 2026 add-on figure. Nothing else on this list is cheaper.
Who it suits. Solo installers and new entrants doing occasional residential work.
Honest limitations. The economics steer you toward partner hardware, which is awkward when DEWA’s approved list is the real constraint on what you can specify. Commercial work exposes the ceiling quickly, there is no UAE regulatory content, no Arabic output and no PPA structure. Our OpenSolar alternative page covers the migration cost honestly.
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4. ARKA 360
What it does best. ARKA 360 gets from an address to a presentable 3D proposal quickly, and its pricing sits at a level Gulf small and mid-size installers can absorb. The visual output punches above its price, and support teams are used to non-US markets, which shows in how flexible the tariff inputs are.
Pricing. ARKA 360 publishes plan prices for India only: Lite ₹46,000, Basic ₹70,000 and Premium ₹1,00,000 per year, all plus 18 percent GST, with a ₹10,000 one-time onboarding fee. It publishes no UAE price, so budget from a quote rather than from a converted Indian figure.
Who it suits. Small and mid-size UAE installers who want a credible visual proposal without an Aurora seat.
Honest limitations. No DEWA equipment filtering, no Shams Dubai banking model and no Arabic layout. Commercial financial structures are thin, and the simulation depth behind the yield figure is lighter than the engineering-led platforms, which matters on a shaded compound or a plant-heavy industrial roof.
5. The Solar Labs
What it does best. Built for high residential throughput, with fast layout, quick proposal generation and a workflow that lets a junior salesperson produce a competent document on the first day. Teams that have imported an Indian sales motion into Dubai often already know it.
Pricing. The Solar Labs brand sits under Arka360 and carries no separately published price list, so pricing follows the Arka360 quote for your region.
Who it suits. Volume residential and light commercial teams that value speed over engineering depth.
Honest limitations. The tariff and subsidy content is built around Indian net metering and PM Surya Ghar logic rather than Shams Dubai, so the financial model needs manual reconstruction for the UAE. No Arabic output, no approved-list filtering, and shading assumptions need overriding for Gulf conditions. Compare with our best solar proposal software in India ranking, where it fits its home market far better.
6. Enact
What it does best. Enact frames the conversation around lifetime savings and financing, and if your close depends on a monthly payment against the current DEWA bill, the narrative tooling is genuinely useful.
Pricing. US$279 a month for 2 users on an annual commitment, or US$299 billed monthly, so roughly AED 12,290 a year for the pair. Commercial projects are capped at 10 a month, and Asset Management and enterprise tiers are not publicly listed.
Who it suits. Sellers leading with financed residential and small commercial deals.
Honest limitations. UAE finance product coverage is thin compared with its US catalogue, the subsidised-tariff problem is not modelled, and the design engine is not a substitute for a proper shading study. See the Enact alternative comparison.
7. Pylon
What it does best. Quoting joined to hardware procurement, so the bill of materials you quoted is the one you order at a price you have already seen. For installers who lose hours reconciling quotes against distributor stock, that is real time recovered every week.
Pricing. Pylon is not a seat licence. It charges per project: US$4.00 on Standard and US$10.00 on Pro, with no monthly minimum, which is about AED 14.70 and AED 36.70. eSignature is US$0.80 a project, payments cost 2.50 percent a transaction, and the separate Solar CRM add-on starts at US$49 per user per month. For a low-volume UAE installer that model is dramatically cheaper than any per-seat product here, ours included.
Who it suits. Installers who want quoting and buying inside one system.
Honest limitations. Design depth is modest, the procurement advantage depends entirely on supplier coverage in your emirate, and commercial structures are absent. The stock catalogue does not know what DEWA has approved. See our Pylon alternative page.
8. QuickEstimate
What it does best. QuickEstimate is built specifically for solar quoting and follow-up rather than adapted from a generic CRM, so the quote, the revision history, the follow-up sequence and the WhatsApp nudge live in one place. For a UAE sales team losing deals to silence rather than to price, that ordering is correct.
Pricing. Around AED 1,500 per user per year.
Who it suits. Sales-led firms that already have a design tool and need quoting discipline plus follow-up.
Honest limitations. It is not an engineering platform. There is no shading simulation, no DEWA equipment validation and no PPA cash flow model, so it pairs with a design tool rather than replacing one. Its proposal generator is strong on speed and weak on technical annexes.
9. Sunbase
What it does best. Pipeline, lead routing, follow-up and reporting first, with proposal generation attached. If your bottleneck is sales process rather than document quality, that priority makes sense.
Pricing. Sunbase publishes an entry point of US$59 per user per month, about AED 2,600 a year, and does not publish its higher tiers.
Who it suits. Firms with a design tool in place and no sales discipline.
Honest limitations. As a proposal engine it is the weakest here on engineering credibility and carries no UAE compliance content at all. It assumes the design is produced elsewhere.
10. Zoho CRM plus Zoho Sign
What it does best. It is on this list because a meaningful share of UAE solar SMEs genuinely run this way: a CRM with a quote template, a PDF and an e-signature tool, all at a price no solar-specific vendor can match. Zoho has real regional presence and support, and for a company doing six commercial deals a year with a strong admin, it works.
Pricing. Zoho publishes its rates in US dollars. Zoho CRM Standard is US$14 per user per month billed annually and Zoho Sign Standard is US$10, so US$24 per user per month, US$288 a year, before local tax. That is roughly AED 1,060 per user per year, approximate, at AED 3.67 to the dollar. Higher tiers cost more: Zoho CRM runs to US$52 per user per month on Ultimate and Zoho Sign to US$16 on Professional.
Who it suits. SMEs with low volume, a capable administrator and design produced by an external consultant.
Honest limitations. Everything solar is manual: yield, tariff, soiling, DEWA compliance, technical annex, all of it. The document is only as accurate as the last person who edited the template, and template drift across a sales team is how two customers receive different savings assumptions for the same roof.
Cost Per Finished Proposal, in Dirhams
Read those against your own close rate. At fifty proposals a month a full platform licence costs less per document than the fuel and staff time for one wasted site visit across Dubai in August. At ten a month it is a real decision. At three it is not close, and the honest recommendation is a free tier plus a careful engineer. IEA tracking shows Gulf rooftop deployment still climbing, so most growing contractors reach the threshold rather than never reaching it. What changes the arithmetic faster than volume is deal size: one 2 MW industrial PPA won on a credible document pays for a decade of seats.
Proposal Mistakes That Cost UAE Installers Deals
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Naming equipment that is not on the DEWA approved list. The submission stalls, the client is re-quoted, and your engineer spends a week undoing a five-minute shortcut. Filter the database before the bill of quantities, not after.
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Treating banked credit as cash income. Shams Dubai credits surplus against future consumption. A proposal that shows export revenue on a system sized above annual load is promising money that will not arrive.
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Quoting an imported retail tariff. Subsidised residential rates stretch villa payback well past what a global default assumes. A five-year payback on a Dubai villa is a number the customer's own bill will disprove.
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Sending a residential savings chart to a CFO. A C&I buyer wants an energy rate, a term, an escalation curve and a buyout schedule. A twenty-five-year savings bar chart reads as consumer marketing in a procurement meeting.
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Carrying a 2 percent soiling default into the savings number. Gulf dust removes far more than that between cleans. The savings figure in the proposal is only as good as the soiling assumption nobody opened.
⚠️ Watch out
The most damaging UAE proposal error is not an optimistic yield. It is a document the client signs and the DEWA process then rejects, because the retraction costs you the referral as well as the job.
Should a UAE Team Standardise on One Platform?
- ✓ You send more than 10 proposals a month
- ✓ You quote under both DEWA and EtihadWE rules
- ✓ You sell PPA or ESCO structures, not only cash jobs
- ✓ Clients ask for Arabic documents
- ✗ You close fewer than 5 villa jobs a month
- ✗ An external consultant produces all your designs
- ✗ You never quote above 100 kWp
- ✗ Your bottleneck is lead generation, not quoting
Verdict. SurgePV is the right default for a UAE contractor with commercial ambitions, because the DEWA layer, the tariff layer and the Arabic layer are bundled and the engineering under the document is real. OpenSolar is the right answer for a solo villa installer. Aurora is the right answer only if a group standard already forces it. Everything else on this list is correct for one specific shape of business and wrong for the others.
How Heaven Green Energy Helps
We run more than 200 MW of installed and designed solar, and we pick tools the way we pick modules: on what survives the site, not on the brochure. If you are weighing a UAE proposal stack, these are the useful next reads.
- Solar design software pillar guide for how the category is structured before you shortlist.
- Best solar design software in UAE for the engineering side of the same decision, including 55C derating and dust soiling.
- Solar proposal software for the global version of this ranking without the UAE compliance layer.
- Best solar proposal software in the UK and in the USA for how the same tools rank under different rulebooks.
- Commercial solar and industrial solar for how we use these documents on live C&I work.
- QBits string sizing calculator for a fast sanity check before a technical annex goes out.
Reference points worth bookmarking: DEWA for Shams Dubai rules and approved lists, the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure for national targets, and IRENA for regional deployment benchmarks. Choosing the best solar proposal software in UAE conditions comes down to how much manual compliance work the platform removes at your actual volume and deal size, and that answer is different for a villa retrofit business than for an ESCO chasing factory rooftops.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best solar proposal software in UAE in 2026?
SurgePV ranks first for UAE contractors sending five or more proposals a month, at roughly AED 4,770 per user per year on the 5-User Team plan. It filters components against DEWA approved-equipment status, models Shams Dubai as banked credit rather than cash export, carries EtihadWE profiles for the northern emirates, exports Arabic and English documents, and runs an 8,760-hour shading simulation behind every yield figure. For a solo villa installer, OpenSolar’s free core tier is the better value answer.
Does solar proposal software need to check DEWA approved equipment?
It should, because that check decides whether the submission proceeds. Under Shams Dubai, modules and inverters must appear on DEWA’s published approved lists and only a DEWA-enrolled contractor and consultant can lodge the application. A proposal naming an unlisted SKU forces a re-quote at a different price, which damages trust more than the delay does. Software that filters the component database against approved status moves that check before the client sees a number rather than after.
How do you write an honest payback for a Dubai villa?
Start from the customer’s actual slab and, where applicable, the subsidised national rate rather than an imported retail average, then apply Shams Dubai banking rules so surplus is credited rather than sold. Size against annual consumption. Include a realistic Gulf soiling loss tied to a stated cleaning interval. The result is often a longer payback than global tools produce, and the correct response is to sell the tariff hedge and the sustainability commitment rather than to inflate the number.
Is Arabic proposal output actually necessary in the UAE?
Not for every deal, and yes for a meaningful share of them. English carries most private-sector and free-zone business. Government entities, semi-government landlords and many family offices prefer Arabic, and tender submissions sometimes want both. Proper Arabic output means full right-to-left reflow of tables, charts and signature blocks rather than translated body text, which is why so few platforms offer it and why it functions as a genuine differentiator when it exists.
Are proposal rules different in Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah?
Yes. Shams Dubai is a DEWA programme that applies inside Dubai only. Etihad Water and Electricity administers connection in Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain with its own application route, approved-contractor register and thresholds, while Abu Dhabi’s large-scale procurement runs through EWEC. A Dubai proposal resubmitted unchanged in the northern emirates carries the wrong tariff assumptions and the wrong compliance references.
What should a UAE commercial solar proposal contain that a residential one does not?
An energy rate rather than a savings total, a contract term, a tariff escalation assumption, a buyout schedule if the structure is a PPA, a performance guarantee with a stated measurement method, and a multi-year cash flow a finance team can audit. It should also state the soiling and cleaning assumptions explicitly, because on a Gulf industrial roof those assumptions carry more financial weight than the module choice does.
How much does solar proposal software cost in the UAE?
Most vendors bill in US dollars rather than in a UAE price, converted here at about AED 3.67 to the dollar. A Zoho stack is US$24 per user per month billed annually, US$288 a year, about AED 1,060, and QuickEstimate is near AED 1,500. Sunbase starts at US$59 per user per month, about AED 2,600 a year, with higher tiers unpublished. SurgePV is US$1,299 per user per year on the five-seat team plan, about AED 4,770 bundled. Aurora is US$135 per user per month on Basic and US$220 on Premium billed annually, about AED 5,950 to AED 9,690 a year. Enact is US$279 a month for two users. Pylon does not sell seats at all, charging US$4.00 or US$10.00 per project. ARKA 360 publishes prices for India only and The Solar Labs sits under the same brand with no separate list, so both need a quote. OpenSolar’s core platform is free, and its 2026 API and Connector rates are not published.
Can free proposal software work for UAE solar sales?
For a narrow profile, yes. A solo installer doing occasional villa work can run entirely inside OpenSolar’s free core with an external engineer checking the DEWA compliance. It stops working the moment you quote commercial rooftops, PPA structures, Arabic documents or anything where a rejected submission costs you a referral network. At that point the licence fee is smaller than a single lost industrial deal.
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