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NetSuite for energy & solar
Project accounting, asset tracking, and field operations for energy & solar companies on NetSuite. Implemented and supported by SSG.
Energy and solar companies live and die by the project. You’re managing installs across dozens of sites, carrying long-lead equipment, recognizing revenue as work gets done, and answering to lenders and tax-equity partners who want clean numbers. Suite Solutions Group gets energy and solar operators onto NetSuite and runs the accounting behind it, so your project economics, your assets, and your field work all live on one system.
The signs
The finance problems specific to energy & solar
Growth in this industry breaks generic accounting tools fast. The pain usually shows up in one of these ways — and if two or more sound familiar, you've outgrown the tooling, not the business.
Project margin is a guess
Job costs are spread across spreadsheets, QuickBooks classes, and a project-management app, so you don't know whether a site is profitable until long after it's energized.
Revenue recognition is manual and risky
Long-duration installs need percentage-of-completion or milestone billing, and doing that by hand invites restatements right when investors are watching.
Equipment and fixed assets are hard to track
Panels, inverters, batteries, and racking move from PO to warehouse to job site, and your books can't tell you what's where or what it's worth.
Multi-entity is the norm
Development entities, project SPVs, and O&M businesses each need their own books, plus a consolidated view, and you're re-keying between them.
How NetSuite solves it
NetSuite puts financials, projects, inventory, and assets on one source of truth built for exactly this kind of operation.
- Project accounting that ties to margin. With NetSuite project management, every labor hour, material cost, and change order rolls up against the job, so you see real-time cost-to-complete and margin per site, not a quarter-late guess.
- Revenue recognition, automated. NetSuite handles percentage-of-completion and milestone billing on rules you set once, keeping long-duration installs ASC 606-compliant without spreadsheet gymnastics.
- Equipment and fixed-asset tracking. From procurement through order and inventory management to the Fixed Assets module, you track panels, inverters, and batteries by serial or lot from PO to site, and depreciate the assets you own on the same platform.
- Multi-entity on OneWorld. Development entities, project SPVs, and O&M businesses each keep clean books, with automated intercompany and one-click consolidation across the whole structure.
Built for field operations
Your revenue happens in the field, not the back office. NetSuite connects the two: purchase orders and inventory tied to specific job sites, subcontractor and vendor bills matched against project budgets, and mobile-friendly access so crews and project managers work from the same data your accounting team closes on. The result is fewer surprises at month-end and a real audit trail for every dollar spent on every site. When your workflows need something NetSuite doesn’t do out of the box, customization closes the gap.
Why SSG
Why energy & solar operators choose Suite Solutions Group
Operators, not just implementers
As an Oracle NetSuite BPO partner, we sell, implement, and run NetSuite, so we build project and asset structures that actually hold up under real field operations.
Scoped to your project model
We configure percentage-of-completion, job costing, and multi-entity to match how your deals and SPVs are actually structured, not a generic template.
Credentialed and honest
Oracle NetSuite partner and QuickBooks ProAdvisor Gold. We'll tell you if you're not ready yet. That's cheaper for everyone.
Want a number before you commit? Our licensing estimator gives you a realistic starting cost in a couple of minutes.
Zero-Cost Go-Live
Let’s be honest, it’s not free, it’s included. License NetSuite through us and let us run your accounting or admin, and the standard build comes included. The project accounting that solar and energy need is a Custom Build: we scope and quote that part up front, in writing, and pass Oracle’s licensing through at partner price, with a team that already knows solar project accounting. See how the tracks and Zero-Cost Go-Live work →
FAQ
Energy & solar NetSuite FAQs
Can NetSuite handle percentage-of-completion revenue for long installs?
Yes. NetSuite supports percentage-of-completion and milestone-based revenue recognition on rules you configure once, keeping long-duration installs compliant and auditable without manual spreadsheets. We set it up to match how your projects are actually billed.
How does NetSuite track equipment like panels, inverters, and batteries?
NetSuite tracks equipment from purchase order through inventory to the job site by serial or lot number, and the Fixed Assets module depreciates the assets you own, all on one platform. That gives you a real-time picture of what's where and what it's worth.
Can NetSuite consolidate multiple project entities or SPVs?
Yes. NetSuite OneWorld keeps clean books for each development entity, project SPV, and O&M business, with automated intercompany transactions and one-click consolidation across the whole structure.
Do you also handle the accounting, not just the software?
Most of our energy and solar clients bundle NetSuite with our fractional accounting team for job costing, AP, reconciliations, monthly close, and investor- and lender-ready reporting, so you get the system and the people who run it in one relationship.
What does NetSuite cost for an energy or solar company?
Cost depends on the modules and user count you need. Our licensing estimator gives you a realistic starting figure in minutes. And with Zero-Cost Go-Live, the standard build is included when you license through us and run your accounting or admin with us.
Ready to run your operation on one system?
Book a call and we'll configure NetSuite around how you actually work.