Q&A with Jyoti Jain, VP, Software & Digital Products, discussing NX One™, Nextpower’s unified software platform — which now comes standard for U.S. customers.
Utility-scale solar plants are engineered as integrated systems, but the experience of delivering them can still be fragmented across teams, tools and project phases. Nextpower is changing that with its connected power plant vision — an integrated approach that brings together structural, electrical, software, and service capabilities across the project lifecycle.
At the center of the connected experience is NX One™ — Nextpower's unified software platform for solar power plants.
The NX One platform consists of three applications that connect data, workflows and stakeholders across the project lifecycle:
NX One™ Portal for a portfolio-level view of execution and operations
NX Pulse™ for mobile field workflows
NX Navigator™ for site-level control and monitoring
This week, Nextpower is making essential NX One platform capabilities standard for U.S. customers through a new baseline package, NX One Core. This gives all U.S. customers access to core capabilities across NX One Portal, NX Pulse, and NX Navigator to create a consistent software experience from the start of every project.
In this blog post, Jyoti Jain, Vice President, Software & Digital Products at Nextpower, gives broader insight into the entire NX One platform and explains how connected software with multiple views can help teams manage project complexity across solar portfolios, sites, and field workflows.
Q: Why do utility-scale solar projects need a connected software platform?
Jyoti Jain: Every project has its own design and engineering requirements, construction plans, and operational goals. At the same time, many different teams are involved, from developers, EPCs, and owners to project managers, construction managers, and service teams.
Each team needs a different view of the project in different phases of the project lifecycle.
A project manager or materials coordinator may want portfolio-level visibility for deliveries, schedule risk, and reporting across multiple project sites.
A commissioning manager needs to understand field progress.
An operator needs to look at site performance, controls, stow strategies, alerts, and system behavior.
A field technician may need mobile access to commissioning, diagnostics, configuration, and troubleshooting workflows.
The challenge is that those workflows have traditionally been managed through a patchwork of tools. Nextpower’s connected power plant vision is about simplifying that complexity, and connected software is a critical part of how we do that.
Q: How does NX One address that complexity?
Jain: NX One is Nextpower’s unified software platform in that it connects all of the different software experiences across a solar project — without forcing every user into the same view. That is what makes the platform approach important.
There is a customer Portal for shipping and delivery tracking, the mobile NX Pulse for commissioning and field workflows, and NX Navigator for site-level control and monitoring. NX One brings those experiences together through a shared cloud and data foundation.
Q: What is new with NX One Core, and how does it relate to the broader NX One platform?
Jain: NX One is the software platform. NX One Core is the baseline package.
Starting in the U.S., each customer and project team, across EPCs, developers, power producers, and owner-operators, will now receive access to the core capabilities of the NX One application suite. Those capabilities help teams manage key workflows across delivery, construction, commissioning, and operations.
The goal of NX One Core is to make software a standard part of every Nextpower project. It gives customers a more consistent starting point, with access to portfolio-level project visibility through NX One Portal, site-level monitoring and controls through NX Navigator, and field-level workflows through NX Pulse.
I think it also represents a new standard expectation for the utility-scale solar industry. Instead of treating each software application as a separate or optional add-on, Nextpower is enabling a connected digital foundation from the start.
Q: Why is Nextpower positioned to connect all of this data and these workflows through NX One?
Jain: Nextpower has a unique vantage point across the project lifecycle, from design and deployment through construction, commissioning, and operations. That allows us to see how data moves between teams, where handoffs create friction, and where software can make the project experience more connected.
Our technology also works together across the plant — hardware, controls, software, field sensors, robotics, and services — creating a layer of intelligence and insight.
With NX One, we are tying that intelligence together. The platform connects and contextualizes information from multiple plant components and project phases so customers can manage the project as one system across its life. For customers, that means better visibility, faster decision-making, and lower execution and operational risk.
Q: Let's walk through each application. Explain NX One Portal and how it impacts delivery, construction, and commissioning.
Jain: NX One Portal is where many customers see immediate value.
From design through shipping, construction, and commissioning, teams are making time-sensitive decisions every day. They need to know what is ready, what is delayed, what has shipped, what has arrived, and what needs to happen before a site can move into operation.
NX One Portal gives teams a portfolio-level view of that execution data. Customers have told us it helps them stage materials more accurately across a site, avoid costly double-handling, and plan construction schedules around actual material deliveries. Product photos and videos in the portal can also help field teams work with individual components more easily during construction.
The portal also improves alignment between Nextpower and the customer. All teams can work from the same delivery information, understand what has shipped or been received, and identify where expedited shipments may be needed. That shared visibility creates a stronger working partnership.
Q: What is the role of NX Pulse in the NX One platform?
Jain: NX Pulse connects the NX One platform into the field. It is the mobile-first experience for field technicians, engineers, commissioning teams, and operators.
NX Pulse was first used internally by our commissioning teams. It supports faster tracker row turning during construction, device commissioning and configuration, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and replacements.
That matters because field work on a utility-scale solar project is labor-intensive, time-sensitive, and expensive. NX Pulse helps teams work faster and with more confidence by supporting key workflows in the field.
During construction, teams may need to turn rows, set rows, or prepare equipment.
During commissioning, they need to configure devices and validate that systems are ready.
During operations, technicians may need to diagnose and resolve issues in the field.
NX Pulse can also help accelerate commissioning schedules because multiple commissioners can work in parallel.
Q: How does NX Navigator fit into NX One?
Jain: So, if NX One Portal gives the portfolio-level view, and NX Pulse gives the field-level view, NX Navigator is the site-level operating view.
Once a site is active, operators need visibility into site status, tracker behavior, alerts, and system performance. They also need the ability to take action when site conditions change.
NX Navigator supports those workflows. It gives operators real-time, site-level monitoring and controls, including stow strategies, device troubleshooting, and weather alerts using advanced forecasts and on-site sensors.
Together, these three applications create a more complete platform experience. Portfolio teams can manage projects, operators can manage sites, and field teams can manage devices — all with information connected through NX One.
Q: Updates are key to any software platform. What more should customers expect from NX One as it evolves?
Jain: The NX One Core package marks a starting point by making core software capabilities a standard part of the U.S. solar project experience.
From here on, the NX One platform will continue to expand with advanced capabilities that support our growing portfolio of products and unlock new value for each stakeholder.
EPCs may value more advanced site-safety workflows. Owner-operators may desire deeper inspection capabilities. Some may benefit from operational intelligence that improves yield.
Not every customer needs every capability, so the platform will support both a standard foundation and optional value-added capabilities that we will continue to launch as the platform evolves.
That is why the architecture of NX One matters. We do not want customers logging into five different systems for five different offerings. We want NX One to be the connected place where all our product offerings come together in one software environment.
Q: Final thoughts on the NX One announcement?
Jain: NX One is about making the software experience as connected as the solar plant itself. The NX One Core package rollout marks an important step in how that software is delivered alongside utility-scale solar projects.
By making software a standard part of the project experience, Nextpower is helping customers move away from fragmented tools and toward a more connected project foundation. Portfolio-level visibility, site-level controls, and field-level workflows can now come together through one platform built around how solar projects are actually delivered and operated.
The result is a more connected customer experience — one that helps teams see more, coordinate better, and execute with greater confidence.
The solar plant is one system. Starting with NX One Core, the software experience is too.