About solarprod (Canada)

Know how much power you can use today

Canadian solar pairs three things that rarely occur together: high-latitude winter darkness (Yellowknife gets three hours of daylight in December), snow that covers the panels for days, and extreme cold that improves panel efficiency once they are clear. Lithium batteries lose capacity in the cold, and heat pumps stretch the load into the long night. solarprod tells you, before you commit:

• Whether today covers the heat pump, the EV charge or the laundry.
• How today’s choices leave the battery for tomorrow morning.
• What each option is worth in dollars against your own tariff.

It runs on real Environment Canada and GFS-class forecasts, so a clear −5 °C February morning on a swept roof shows up as a high-performing day rather than a written-off one.

Get the savings of a VPP without giving up control

A virtual power plant pays you to let someone else run your battery. The rates are good. The catch is that they decide when it charges and when it empties, and you find out afterwards. solarprod gives you the first half without the second:

• We work out the week ahead for you: when to charge, when to hold, when to export. You do not have to think about it each day.
• The plan is built from your roof: the orientation and tilt of your panels, and the local forecast for your address. Most VPPs run a whole fleet of batteries against a market signal, and never look at whether your panels will be under cloud at 3pm.
• One press writes that schedule to your own inverter, as ordinary timers. Nothing of ours sits between you and your battery.
• Change, edit or delete any of it whenever you like. Timers you set by hand stay exactly where you put them; ones that came from your plan are labelled, so you can see which the next plan update will replace.
• No contract and no aggregator. Nobody else gets to decide your battery is needed at 6pm.

When the weather shifts, refresh the schedule with one press. Available today for Tesla, Deye and GoodWe inverters. With Sungrow and Victron inverters we can read your solar and battery data but can’t set timers yet. We’ll add more inverters as our users ask for them.

Get a forecast that allows for cold panels

Cold panels deliver more power than their nameplate rating, not less, and most calculators miss it entirely. A clear −10 °C February morning with bright sun can produce 10–12 % over rated output, which partly compensates for the short winter days.

We model this hour by hour from real ambient temperature in the Environment Canada and Open-Meteo feed, so Canadian winter forecasts come out higher than tools that assume the 25 °C lab reference always applies. You can switch it off for a like-for-like comparison.

Model the net-metering rules of your own province

Ontario’s net metering is volume-based, BC Hydro credits at retail and rolls over annually, Alberta’s micro-generation regulation pays a separate export rate set by your retailer, and SaskPower and Manitoba Hydro have their own. The export strategies let you model whichever rule applies to you and see the dollar outcome for your specific tariff.

See whether you could live off the grid

We play a real year of weather over your roof, day by day, carrying the battery over each night. You get:

• The days you would have run out, and how badly. Up here it is rarely one bad day. It is a short, grey December, and an average year never contains the worst one.
• A calendar of the year, so you can see at a glance whether it is the whole winter or the odd scattered week. Different problems, different fixes.
• What a generator would cost. When it starts, how long it runs, and roughly the year’s gas. A second calendar shows the thirsty days.
• More panels, bigger battery, or a generator? Answered for your roof and your latitude, not by a rule of thumb.

Off-grid cabin, camp, or a place the line would cost more to run than the panels: this answers it with your own winter rather than a national average.

Plan a snowbird trip south before you go

A motorhome that spent six months parked in Saskatchewan needs a different solar plan in Yuma: much longer days, AC running flat out, and hot panels giving up 12–15 % of nameplate on a 110 °F afternoon. Ahead of time you can:

• Plan a multi-stop route from BC or Ontario to the US sunbelt, knowing which stops carry your load each day.
• Compare roof-mount alone against adding a ground array for shaded southern sites.
• Decide whether to dry camp another day or move to a powered site, based on tomorrow’s forecast and today’s battery.
• Right-size before the trip: battery, panel wattage, and the generator margin a heatwave week in Arizona actually needs.

Contact

General enquiries, feedback or feature requests: [email protected].

Product help, how-to questions or bug reports: [email protected].