Planted Solar offers an integrated hardware-and-software platform that generates optimized layouts, energy models, and engineering drawings while pairing terrain-following, high-density arrays with automated installation tools. Its system claims to cut land use roughly 50%, enable slopes up to 27%, use 70% less steel, and deliver projects about twice as fast, producing roughly 30% lower cost of energy. The platform targets developers, EPCs, and independent power producers to unlock sites previously infeasible due to grading or land constraints. Founded in 2020 and operating projects across the U.S., Planted is also ramping activity in Asia-Pacific and Europe. With this funding, the company intends to accelerate development of both its digital and hardware solutions, expand deployment capacity, and form strategic partnerships globally. The product focus is on improving project economics and shortening time to power amid surging U.S. solar demand and deployment challenges. Planted Solar sells a rapid solar power plant deployment platform that integrates development software, high-density terrain-following arrays, and construction robots. The company emerged from stealth and announced 11 MW of projects in the Chicago metro area in partnership with Cultivate Power. Its high-density arrays produce roughly 2x more energy per acre with a 2-acre-per-MW footprint and can be built on slopes up to 27%, avoiding grading. Planted Solar says its approach cuts balance-of-system costs by about 50%, reduces installation hours, and enables project throughput and completion times roughly 3x faster. The company has raised $20 million in Series A funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Khosla Ventures and received a U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office award to support commercial launch and scale-up. Those funds and awards are being used to commercialize and scale the integrated hardware-software-robotics product and expand deployments. Planted Solar is headquartered in Oakland, California. Planted Solar develops a novel ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) system along with balance-of-system components and an installation methodology aimed at utility-scale projects. The technology is intended to enable highly automated, rapid installation of solar arrays. Its design aims to lower the levelized cost of electricity, reduce land-use competition, and increase siting flexibility. The company was selected for federal support to demonstrate and validate the system at scale. Planted Solar’s project focuses on commercialization pathways to accelerate deployment and strengthen the solar supply chain. The team says the work will support next-generation solar manufacturing and installation practices.

Total raised

$34M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jul 2025