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[Schedule Your Demo](https://xendee.com/design#demo) ### With DISCOVER, you can easily: ■  Analyze, prioritize, and quote new opportunities in your site portfolio ■  Unlock new DER investment opportunities for your customers ■  Provide research validated financial projections for recommended sites [Schedule a Demo](https://xendee.com/design#tmp1_module_1673646888476) ![Placeholder 1](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Rectangle%206117.png?width=856&height=600&name=Rectangle%206117.png) Schedule a Demo ##### The Challenge: #### Designing Profitable Microgrids with Unique Site Conditions and Assets Microgrid projects require developers and engineers to balance site conditions, utility tariffs, load profiles, resilience needs, technology performance, and project economics. Solar, storage, generators, EV charging, and other distributed energy resources must be sized and optimized as one system. A rigorous, science-based modeling approach is needed to compare options, understand tradeoffs, and identify designs that deliver the greatest technical and financial value. ![the-challenge-of-microgrid-design-v4](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/the-challenge-of-microgrid-design-v4.png?width=700&height=474&name=the-challenge-of-microgrid-design-v4.png) ##### The Solution: #### Design the Optimal Investment and Operational Strategy with Xendee DESIGN streamlines the complex Distributed Energy Resources (DER) modeling process, enabling you to arrive at a finance and engineering-ready design that will improve cost efficiencies, reduce carbon emissions, and improve site resiliency as well as automatically determine cable and transformer sizes between network nodes. Use Xendee's DESIGN tool for your proposal writing and feasibility studies, and transfer your approved projects to more advanced modeling stages, all within DESIGN (e.g. power flow). DESIGN streamlines the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) or infrastructure modeling process, allowing you to arrive at a finance and engineering-ready design that will: - Improve cost efficiencies - Reduce carbon emissions - Support resiliency - Automatically determine cable and transformer sizes between network nodes - [Optimize your electric vehicle fleet →](https://xendee.com/mobility?hsLang=en) [Schedule Your Demo](https://xendee.com/design#demo) ![Design-mockup\_v3](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Design-mockup_v3.png?width=800&height=664&name=Design-mockup_v3.png) ##### We Have Helped Our Clients Model Over $5 Billion in Cost Savings and Reduction of 10 Million Tons of CO2 [Click to See List of Major Customers](https://xendee.com/our-customers?hsLang=en) ![2g-128x128](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2g-128x128.png?width=128&height=128&name=2g-128x128.png) ![kinsley-250x150](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/kinsley-250x150.png?width=250&height=150&name=kinsley-250x150.png) ![bloom-energy-250x150](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/bloom-energy-250x150.png?width=250&height=150&name=bloom-energy-250x150.png) ![bosch-250x150](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/bosch-250x150.png?width=250&height=150&name=bosch-250x150.png) ![Eaton](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eaton.png?width=250&height=150&name=eaton.png) ![Schneider Electric ](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/schnieder.png?width=250&height=150&name=schnieder.png) ![Siemens](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/siemens.png?width=250&height=150&name=siemens.png) ![Jenbacher](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/jenbacher.png?width=250&height=150&name=jenbacher.png) ![MacAllister CAT](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/macallister-cat.jpg?width=250&height=150&name=macallister-cat.jpg)   ### How To Get Started with DESIGN ###### 01 ###### Create a Proposal or Detailed Model Utilize our databases and APIs to input energy requirements, technology data, and constraints for your feasibility or detailed engineering study. Or move results from your DISCOVER API site portfolio analysis into DESIGN. ![operate-icon-solar](https://xendee.com/hubfs/operate-icon-solar.png) ###### 02 ###### Define & Refine Strategy Select and iterate on goals such as cost or carbon reduction, and resiliency during the design process. Xendee will automatically find the best economic and technical solutions for you. Xendee can also calculate the power flow and losses in the electrical system. ![operate-icon-cash](https://xendee.com/hubfs/operate-icon-cash.png) ###### 03 ###### View Report & Financial Analysis Explore the optimal mix and size of technology for your Distributed Energy Resources, check the balance of system costs, and create detailed financial and technical reports for multiple years or DER lifecycle stages going into the future. ![operate-icon-trend-down](https://xendee.com/hubfs/operate-icon-trend-down.png) ### Electric & Thermal Modeling Supported Xendee DESIGN supports 25+ technologies such as electric vehicles, cold storage, CHP, batteries and PV systems, in combination with seven different energy domains like electricity, heating, cooling, domestic hot water, natural gas, biogas, biomass, and hydrogen, all in one design system. All of these technologies can be easily optimized up to 50 years into the future in a multi-year setup, including controller dispatch. Optimal solutions can be analyzed with Time Series simulation, short circuit analysis, and automatic transformer and cable sizing. For support in modeling these technologies, Xendee provides [engineering and modeling services](https://xendee.com/modeling-services?hsLang=en) to help augment the capabilities of your team.  ![Xendee-Technology-Icons-v3](https://xendee.com/hubfs/Xendee-Technology-Icons-v3.jpg) ### Bankable Energy™ Models & Projections You Can Trust Energy modeling approaches that don't take into account your financial and business case objectives, will lead to sub-optimal, unreliable solutions. Xendee’s algorithm and standardized process are peer-reviewed and research-based, and are used to optimize for the lowest cost in almost 5,000 modeling projects per year. ![design-projections-700x655-v2](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/design-projections-700x655-v2.png?width=700&height=655&name=design-projections-700x655-v2.png) ### Easily Integrate with Existing Data Sources & Tools APIs allow direct data transfer to Xendee for a large number of sensitivity runs or projects. - Built-in catalogs for technologies. - APIs that import site-specific information (weather data, solar radiation, wind speed, marginal emissions, utility tariffs) automatically or in 2-3 mouse-clicks. - Multiple ways to bring in load data and/or manipulate load shapes from a built-in library. Or utilize our AI co-pilot to get started. ![load-builder-2026](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/load-builder-2026.png?width=700&height=655&name=load-builder-2026.png) ### Add Power Flow and Distribution System Modeling Create reliable and optimal models of your cables and transformers in combination with your Distributed Energy Resources in addition to financial and economic planning. Achieve engineering designs that will accelerate the approval and implementation phases.   ![design-powerflow-700x655](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/design-powerflow-700x655.png?width=700&height=655&name=design-powerflow-700x655.png)   ## See How Industry Leaders Are Growing Their Businesses Using Xendee “Lancium is in the business of operating mega scale Clean Campuses for AI data centers, delivering and orchestrating all power resources from grid to BTM storage and generation. Xendee’s platform has given us the ability to input complex variables and constraints, and generate the optimal multi-year strategy to power each campus and ensure we deliver the lowest-cost, most resilient, and maximally green energy possible.”  **—** Ali Fenn President Lancium ![ali-fenn-circle](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ali-fenn-circle.png?width=75&height=75&name=ali-fenn-circle.png) “Xendee's software was a game-changer for us. Modeling both subsections and the entire five-utility system with its medium voltage backbone revealed insights we couldn't have gained otherwise. It's not just about initial design - we're using Xendee iteratively as we build out the corridor. This approach is redefining how we balance regional resilience with cost-effectiveness." **—** Adam Morse VP of Engineering Protogen ![adam-morse](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/adam-morse.png?width=75&height=75&name=adam-morse.png) “NYPA operates on behalf of the citizens of the state of New York. For our Virtual Power Plant and other distributed energy projects, an absolute requirement was to understand the engineering \[details and financials\]. We found that Xendee's design tool was really instrumental in factoring all these variables and allowing us to arrive at the most comprehensive and deep picture needed to give our customers realistic projects." **—** John Cordi Dir. Demand Flexibility & VPP New York Power Authority ![john-cordi-nypa-1](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/john-cordi-nypa-1.png?width=75&height=75&name=john-cordi-nypa-1.png) [See Case Studies](https://xendee.com/case-studies?hsLang=en) ###### Cloud-based Access all of your projects from anywhere, on any device, and share them with your team to collaborate and receive important platform updates. ![Cloud-Control\_white](https://xendee.com/hubfs/Cloud-Control_white.png) ###### Most Awarded Our team and platform have been honored with awards, including the Defense Innovation Award in Energy, 2021 & 2025 Edison Awards, 2025 World Economic Forum Top Innovator, 2026 Cleantech Breakthrough award, and the Presidential Science Award from the White House. ![Group 84](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Group%2084.png?width=72&height=72&name=Group%2084.png) ###### Comprehensive User Support Our national support team helps you get the most from Xendee, from building detailed, bankable designs to accessing custom tariffs and advanced features. For additional support, our Modeling Services team can assist with project development and analysis. ![Multitasker\_White](https://xendee.com/hubfs/Multitasker_White.png) ###### Cybersecurity We have obtained compliance with the U.S. Department of Defense’s stringent Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). Therefore, we maintain enterprise and government class cybersecurity standards. ![Group 83](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Group%2083.png?width=72&height=72&name=Group%2083.png) DESIGN streamlines the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) or infrastructure modeling process, allowing you to arrive at a finance and engineering-ready design that will: - Improve cost efficiencies - Reduce carbon emissions - Support resiliency - Automatically determine cable and transformer sizes between network nodes - [Optimize your electric vehicle fleet →](https://xendee.com/mobility?hsLang=en) [Schedule Your Demo](https://xendee.com/design#demo) ![Design-mockup\_v3](https://xendee.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Design-mockup_v3.png?width=800&height=664&name=Design-mockup_v3.png)   #### Schedule Your Demo Ready to find out how Xendee can help speed up your engineering process? Let’s connect. 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