New Leaf Energy is one of the most active solar developers in the northeastern United States, managing a multi-gigawatt pipeline across multiple states. As their portfolio scaled, the limitations of disconnected design and data tools became impossible to ignore — every layout revision triggered a cascade of manual updates across engineering, permitting, and finance models.
By centralizing project data and automating the handoff between design and downstream workflows, New Leaf cut average development time by 50%. This case study breaks down exactly where the time savings came from and what the team had to change to make it stick.