Help (USA)
How to use solarprod from the United States. Lead question: how much can I burn today — AC, EV, peak export — and still have enough to get through the night and refill tomorrow given your local weather and net-metering rules?
Getting started
Enter your address (typeahead resolves US ZIP codes); the simulator pulls NOAA / GFS-class real forecasts for that specific location, so the answer matches your microclimate rather than a regional climatology average.
Energy balance simulator
The Energy balance simulator runs at 15-minute resolution and returns kWh totals plus dollar outcomes if you supply your specific TOU tariff. In NEM 3.0 California the export-rate collapse means surplus solar at noon is worth a fraction of evening import — the Charge EV strategies are particularly valuable there.
Trip planning
For RV trip planning across multiple states, enter a date range and run the simulator for each planned stop in turn — AZ summer, NM autumn, FL winter all have very different forecasts. Boondocking on BLM land and snowbirding from the Northeast to the Gulf both benefit from explicit confidence bands — you get “18–24 kWh on Wednesday with 80% confidence” rather than a single bare number.
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.