Tetraeder.solar Gmbh

What Tetraeder.solar Gmbh does

Tetraeder.solar GmbH is a German geospatial SaaS company, headquartered in Münster with administrative operations in Dortmund, that builds cloud-based digital planning and analytics tools to help municipalities, climate protection managers, planning offices, and climate agencies accelerate the renewable energy transition. Its portfolio of six core products — Solar Potential Map (Solarpotenzialkataster), Energy Saving Potential Map (Energieeinsparpotenzialkataster), Green Roof Potential Map (Gründachpotenzialkataster), e-locate (citizen participation for EV charging station siting), PV-Freiflächen-Spotter (open-space / ground-mounted PV area identification), and a Data Export service — is delivered as hosted portals on German data centers and is built on a proprietary stack that processes laser scanning and aerial imagery into 3D surface models, simulates solar irradiation and shading, and applies AI-supported evaluation to extract roof shapes, storeys, building height, and adjacent structures.

The underlying technology combines 3D surface modeling derived from laser scan data, real estate cadastral data (ALK/ALKIS), proprietary solar potential calculation software, and AI-assisted building data evaluation to produce structured digital twins of buildings and urban structures. According to the company, over 135 million buildings covering 21.1 million km² across 12 European countries have been analyzed. Distribution is conducted through a direct enterprise sales motion (Key Account Managers, Account Managers, Sales Consultants) targeting municipalities and climate-sector professionals, supplemented by content marketing, LinkedIn, email, and interactive product demonstrations on a multi-language website.

The business model is anchored in recurring SaaS revenue through monthly hosting and maintenance fees that vary by calculated area, supplemented by project-based data export and open-space PV analysis engagements, plus optional IFrame / white-label integration for municipalities that want to embed the map products inside their own websites. Tetraeder.solar operates as a subsidiary within the privately held tetraeder.group and reports no external venture or private equity funding in the available source material.

Name

Tetraeder.solar Gmbh

Legal name

tetraeder.solar gmbh

Website

https://tetraeder.solar

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Tetraeder.solar GmbH is a German cloud-based SaaS company that provides geospatial analytics and planning tools — solar, green roof, energy saving, EV charging, and open-space PV — to municipalities, climate agencies, and planning offices across 12 European countries, built on 3D surface models and AI-assisted building data evaluation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Renewable Energy Geospatial Analytics Software

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Solar Design, Engineering & Performance Software (PV Modeling, Digital Twins, Monitoring) (EUAMABAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Solar Grid Integration & Interconnection Services (Studies, Protection, SCADA, Forecasting) (EUAMABAI)

Keywords

• Solar potential mapping
• Geospatial analytics software
• Renewable energy planning
• Municipal climate tools
• Photovoltaic site analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

Münster

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform / Portal Hosting: Cloud-based portal solutions (Solar Potential Maps, Green Roof Potential Maps, Energy Saving Potential Maps) provided as hosted services with monthly maintenance and update fees. The portal is customized for each municipality and hosted on German data centers.
2. Data Export Services: Customized data exports in CSV or Shapefile formats for energy and climate protection concepts, including solar potential data, installation potential, yields, CO2 savings, and individual parameters. Sold as project-based or recurring data supply contracts.
3. Open-space Photovoltaic Analysis (PV-Freiflächen-Spotter): Project-based potential area analysis for ground-mounted PV systems, delivered as a geodata set (shapefile) with cartographic representation and brief report. Includes automated detection and differentiated evaluation of potential areas.
4. Hosting and Maintenance Fees: Ongoing hosting maintenance fees for cadastral products, varying by size of calculated area. Includes regular system updates and data refreshes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tetraeder.solar develops and operates cloud-based SaaS portals that process large volumes of spatially referenced geodata to assess renewable energy and energy efficiency potential at building, city and regional level. Its product suite comprises interactive Solar Potential Maps, Green Roof Potential Maps, Energy Saving Potential Maps, e-locate for citizen-driven EV charging siting, the PV-Freiflächen-Spotter for ground-mounted PV site analysis, and a Europe-wide Data Export service, all sold primarily to municipalities, climate protection agencies, and planning offices.

Product overview

Tetraeder.solar Gmbh offers a portfolio of six cloud-based digital planning and information tools for the energy transition, aimed primarily at municipalities, climate agencies, and planning offices in Germany and across Europe. The core offering centers on geodata-powered interactive map products (Solar Potential Map, Green Roof Potential Map, Energy Saving Potential Map) that analyze building and land data using 3D surface models and laser scan processing. These are complemented by e-locate for citizen-participatory EV charging infrastructure planning, the Open-space Photovoltaic Analysis for identifying suitable land for solar farms, and a Data Export service for supplying solar potential datasets. All six products operate on a cloud-based platform with no local installation required and are delivered as hosted portals, hosted maps, or data exports. The company claims to have analyzed over 135 million buildings across Europe and serves several hundred German municipalities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Energieeinsparpotenzialkataster: Energy savings potential register for heat planning
• Solarpotenzialkataster
• Gründachpotenzialkataster
• e-locate
• PV-Freiflächen-Spotter
• Datenexport

Products and services

• Solar Potential Map (Solarpotenzialkataster) Interactive map showing the suitability of each building for solar energy generation across an entire city or region. Built on 3D surface models derived from laser scan and aerial imagery, it displays roof suitability levels, solar irradiation, and shading, and includes a module placer tool and a profitability calculator aimed at municipalities, homeowners, and solar sales organizations.
• Energy Saving Potential Map (Energieeinsparpotenzialkataster) Cloud-based portal providing building modernization potential and energy savings data for municipal heat planning. Uses AI-assisted analysis of laser scan data to produce digital twins of buildings and to recommend renovation measures, costs, and amortization for homeowners and municipal climate protection managers.
• Green Roof Potential Map (Gründachpotenzialkataster) Interactive map showing the suitability of each building's roof for green roofs across a city. Helps municipalities, climate agencies, and citizens identify roofs that can reduce urban heat islands, manage stormwater, improve microclimate, and filter air pollutants.
• e-locate Online participation platform enabling citizens to suggest and evaluate locations for EV charging stations. Provides an interactive map, rating and commenting system, and a transparent evaluation framework to support municipal charging infrastructure planning and e-mobility operators.
• Open-space Photovoltaic Analysis (PV-Freiflächen-Spotter) Project-based potential area analysis tool that identifies and evaluates suitable land for ground-mounted solar installations. Uses exclusion criteria, legal framework analysis, and participatory refinement across four phases to produce maps, reports, and geodata exports for planning offices and municipalities.
• Data Export (Datenexport) Europe-wide data export service providing solar potential data in CSV and Shapefile formats for energy and climate protection concepts, CRM systems, and solar marketing campaigns. Includes irradiation analysis, profitability calculations, electricity storage simulation, and the photovoltaic affinity index used by solar marketers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Solar marketing campaigns can achieve success rates of up to 11 percent using the photovoltaic affinity index.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Hetzner Online GmbHcoreTechnology or IntegrationServer infrastructure provider for hosting tetraeder.solar's cloud-based applications. German data centers powered by 100% hydropower. Provides storage and processing of business activity data with protection against loss, misuse, and unauthorized access.
• tetraeder.groupcoreOthersParent corporate group of which tetraeder.solar is a part. A group of companies committed to positive change in renewable energy, technology, and sustainability. tetraeder.solar benefits from synergies, resources, and expertise from other group companies including enwarp, tetraeder.com, tetraeder.dev, and tetraeder.services.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Aurora Solar: Aurora Solar provides cloud-based solar design, sales and permitting software for rooftop PV. It is a direct competitor in solar potential analysis and design SaaS, though primarily focused on installers rather than municipal clients.
• OpenSolar: OpenSolar offers free, web-based solar design and proposal tools for installers worldwide, including solar potential and shading analysis. It overlaps with Tetraeder.solar's solar potential modelling capability, though without Tetraeder.solar's municipal/government focus.
• PVcase: PVcase provides solar project design and engineering software for utility-scale and C&I PV developers, including site suitability and layout tools. It is comparable in the ground-mount/open-space PV analysis capability and competes for similar geodata-driven design work.

Broad incumbents

• Mapbox: Mapbox is a widely adopted mapping and geospatial platform used by enterprises and public-sector customers. While it provides the underlying tile, routing and visualisation layer rather than solar potential analytics, it competes for the same municipal GIS budget and partnership footprint.
• ESRI: ESRI is the dominant GIS platform used by European municipalities and planning offices, and increasingly bundles spatial analytics that overlap with Tetraeder.solar's solar potential mapping. It represents the broad incumbent that municipal customers may default to in absence of a specialist.
• Nearmap: Nearmap provides high-resolution aerial imagery and 3D content across multiple geographies, including AI-derived building attributes used for solar and property analytics. It is a broad incumbent in the spatial data layer that supports solar potential workflows.

Emerging players

• ClimateView: ClimateView is a Swedish SaaS platform for cities and regions to plan and track climate transition roadmaps, including renewable energy deployment. It targets the same municipal climate manager and planning office buyer, with overlap on the strategic planning layer above solar potential data.
• Reuniwatt: Reuniwatt provides solar irradiance forecasting and sky-imaging services primarily to solar farm operators and grid managers. It overlaps with Tetraeder.solar's forecasting and irradiation modelling technology, particularly for ground-mount PV siting.

Others

• Ecopia AI: Ecopia AI uses AI to extract high-precision building footprints and property attributes from aerial imagery at national scale. Its outputs feed similar downstream solar and energy potential workflows, making it an enabling technology peer rather than a direct competitor.

Regional players

• Cyclomedia: Cyclomedia captures and processes street-level and aerial imagery across Western Europe into 3D city models used by municipalities and utilities. Its datasets underpin comparable solar and building potential analyses, making it a regional data provider peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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