Help (UK)
How to use solarprod from the UK or Ireland. Lead question: how much can I burn today and still get through the night given high-latitude weather and your Smart Export Guarantee tariff? Sub-guides at the bottom are climate-agnostic.
Getting started
Enter your address (the typeahead resolves UK and Irish postcodes well), pick the date, and configure your panel layout. Default tilt for most UK roofs is 30–40°; azimuth options are often constrained by terraced streets and chimney shadows — work with what your roof actually faces.
Energy balance simulator
Turn on the Energy balance simulator to model battery + load at 15-minute resolution. UK winter forecasts have wider confidence bands than summer ones — the chart shows this explicitly so you don’t over-commit on a cloudy December outlook. Pair with your SEG tariff structure for real export-revenue numbers.
Trip planning
For campervan, motorhome, or boat trips across Europe, set a date range and enter the address of each planned stop in turn — the calculator pulls real local weather for each, so you can compare the Scottish highlands in October against Provence in July apples-to-apples. Multi-day chained forecasts apply confidence-band uncertainty that widens further out, which is exactly the right shape of answer for trip planning.
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.
Closes this tab and returns to the calculator.