See how Solarprod can save you hundreds of dollars per year
You can save hundreds of dollars in electricity bills and remove tonnes of CO2 emissions by using the right electricity plan, forecasting how much power your system will make depending on the weather, and banking + selling your battery to get the most out of it all. Solarprod does this for you!
Martin Sevior · 7 September 2026
Set it up for your system
- Name this layout (pro tip – create different layouts to test different electricity plans, adding more solar panels or batteries)
- Your address (this is to predict your specific weather, it’s not just by city)
- Your solar panels and the direction(s) they face (we use Google satellite view to make this easy for you)
- Your battery size
- Connect the inverter using the username/password you set up for your system
- Add any Electric Vehicles you want to charge (optional)
- Your current electricity plan (to calculate how much you’ll earn buying and selling power)
Find the electricity plan that gives you the best deal
In your local area there may be hundreds of electricity plans, now you may be thinking if there are hundreds of plans, how do I find the right one for me? This is one of solarprod's features. After you've setup your system, simply press the Email me the best plan button. We’ll run the numbers and show you the top 5 for your system.
To run the numbers solarprod will:
- read your electricity use from your inverter
- calculate the power your panels make given the daily sunshine for every day in 2025 (we use the real observed weather data for this)
- work out the best way to cover your home needs
- whether it can also charge your battery
- whether you need to import or can export power to the grid
- do this for every day in 2025 for every electricity plan at your postcode
- calculate the cost and earnings for each plan
- rank all the plans from top to bottom
- email you the results
That's a lot of work, and that's why it takes a few minutes to give you your answer. You'll receive an email like the one shown below, highlighting the top 5, along with a spreadsheet of all the hundred-odd plans available at your postcode.
To really make the most of these plans we tell you when to import and export electricity every day of the year to maximise your profit. Doing that correctly can turn a $305 electricity bill into $850 profit so you're over $1000 ahead! Then you can either implement it yourself, or we can set up timers to automatically turn on imports and exports from your battery.
Optimised Plan
Let's see how Solarprod works in detail. Here's a calculation for the week of October 8th to October 14th for a house in a suburb of Melbourne.
This Solarprod-optimised plan shows you how to earn $51.74 by exporting the right amounts of electricity at the right times.
Solar and battery will get you some savings, but Solarprod can supercharge your savings in this weekly example:
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- without solar and battery you'd pay $33.34
- with solar and battery you’d pay $3.14
- using Solarprod-optimised plan, you’ll earn $51.74
With Solarprod, you export power in the evening when the sun isn't shining. By exporting then, you need less power from Fossil-Fuel power stations, which reduces CO2 emissions. Also, notice that on Sunday evening, you don't export much because the next day you'll have low solar production, and you need to keep the battery charged to cover your own use. On Monday evening, you can export a lot because the next day will be sunny and you can refill the battery. We tell you when and how much power to import or export in an easy-to-follow action plan. Or, for supported inverters, we can program them to run automatically. You can change our plan at any time, though.
Why your electricity plan matters
Now consider a solution with no incentive to import or export at different times because the plan doesn't change its electricity price during the day.
Here, the battery simply fills up and then exports when it's full. This electricity flows onto the grid when there is already a lot of solar power, so much of it is wasted. You're still better off because the solar and battery cover all your power needs, but instead of earning $57, you pay $6.24.
Also, because you export power in the middle of the day when the grid's CO2 emissions are already low, your CO2 emission reduction is 99 kg, much less than the optimised plan, which avoids 177 kg of CO2.
This is also how a passively used battery behaves. You export excess power when prices are low, and the grid already has low CO2 emissions.
But with Solarprod you make money and cut CO2 emissions.
What you get with Solarprod
- You win because you get a better price for your power
- Your neighbours win because their power comes from nearby and not from locations far away
- The grid wins because you supply power right when it's needed after the sun goes down
- Everybody wins because we don't have to build as many expensive long-distance transmission lines
- The environment wins because there is less CO2 produced from burning fossil fuels
- Finally, you keep complete control of your own power. If you need it when the grid stops, you can use it for your own needs
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