Help (Canada)
How to use solarprod from Canada. Lead question: how much can I burn today — heat pump, EV, electric range — and still leave enough to get through a long winter night and refill the battery tomorrow given high-latitude weather and your provincial net-metering rules?
Getting started
Enter your address (typeahead resolves Canadian postal codes); the simulator uses Environment Canada / GFS-class forecasts for your specific location, including the cold-temperature efficiency boost that typical climate averages miss.
Energy balance simulator
The Energy balance simulator handles cold-winter PV correctly — panels run more efficiently when cold, but lithium batteries lose usable capacity below 0°C and heat pumps draw heavily on long winter evenings. Pair with your provincial tariff (Ontario volume-based, BC Hydro full-retail rollover, Alberta micro-generation, etc.) to get dollar outcomes that match your real bill.
Trip planning
For snowbird RV trips down to the United States, run the simulator for the address of each planned stop — Saskatchewan in October, Yuma in February, the Florida Gulf Coast in March all return very different answers. Multi-day chained forecasts apply confidence-band uncertainty so you can see in advance which legs of the trip might force a generator night.
Specific guides
The detail-level help below is climate-agnostic — same inputs everywhere — so links go to the shared guides:
- Panel groups column reference — Name, Azimuth, Tilt, Power, Count.
- System efficiency — what the lumped DC→AC factor captures.
- Use real weather — toggle behaviour and when to leave it off.
- Have Battery / Electric Vehicle — what enabling the energy-balance simulator unlocks.
- How to find your Amber Electric API token — Australia only; ignore if you’re not on Amber.
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