SolarAid 4+
Forecast solar generation
Jack Brown
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
SolarAid lets you forecast the generation of your solar array.
SolarAid provides insights into the expected output of your solar panels, based on weather forecasts, historical data, and other key factors. You can input all the necessary details about your solar panel system, including the size, location, and orientation, and receive an accurate projection of your daily energy generation.
What’s New
Version 2.1.2
Welcome to the latest release of SolarAid. Please note that SolarAid does not produce the forecasts and relies on a third party, we are looking into adding additional forecast providers as some users find the current forecasts inaccurate.
- The current time slot will now be bold.
- You can now choose to have previous time slots 'struck' out.
- Fixed a UI issue which caused overflow at the bottom when too many timeslots were returned.
- Fixed an issue where users with an API key only saw 2 days of forecasts.
Ratings and Reviews
Great app, accurate and very useful
The app handles up to 3 (differently facing) arrays of panels. Values show good agreement with my observations and so I highly recommend this app. Since one typically wants to minimise home generated exports of electricity it does help one to plan tomorrows energy intensive activities (dish washer, washing machine, tumble dryer, electric oven/air fryer).
Very variable accuracy
I monitored the forecast generation and compared it with the actual generation of my 3 kWp array for about a month. Overall it slightly underestimated my generation but on a daily basis it could be extremely inaccurate with generation often half or twice the forecast. Today has been an extreme example. 9.8 kWh forecast, 2.3 kWh generated. Quoting half hourly forecasts with a precision of 1 Wh (3 decimal places kWh) is ridiculous.
Just what I have been looking for
Added a 3.5 kw west array to my old 2.5 kw south array plus a 10kw libbi, zappi and eddi. This is exactly what I was looking for. You should be talking to Myenergi to integrate this with their app. Great work!
App Privacy
The developer, Jack Brown, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Jack Brown
- Size
- 43.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Jack Brown
- Price
- Free