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AI Contribution Widget
Month – Year - Lifetime | Use the slider to select the data period you want to see. These numbers are calculated based on actual measured performance for your plant, as explained in more detail below. Currently, ‘Lifetime’ refers to the duration of the current active subscription only, not the cumulative total for any series of subscriptions cancelled/renewed.
Metrics | All the following relate to the selected period and reflect the additional benefit delivered by the predictive AI and automation:
1. Cash Gains | This is a running total of applicable and contribution by our predictive AI whilst making sure you have usingand with . Unless otherwise stated, they are to the baseline financial benefit of the un-managed system.
Note, the separate ‘Payback & Investment’ widget on the plant homepage shows the combined total of baseline and financial benefits from active AI.
The following explains if and how Total Savings and Total Earning are include or not in Cash Gains for a Mode, application of which depends on your system configuration/context and available grid tariff type:
Mode Number | Mode Type | Total Savings | Total Earnings |
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0 | Intelligent Self-Consumption – Without Selling | Yes | Not Applicable |
1 | Intelligent Self-Consumption & Grid-Trading (Constant Rates)* | Yes | Not Included** |
2 | Intelligent Self-Consumption & Grid-Trading (Variable Rates) | Yes | Yes |
3 | Scheduled Grid Trading Only | No *** | Yes |
explanation| ‘Intelligent Self-Consumption’ applies AI to deliver reliable energy 24/7 using minimal grid and at the lowest overall cost, whilst at the same time actively managing battery health and delivering direct CO2 reductions. For more details on AI Work Modes, see the User Manual at https://www.sunsynkconnectpro.info/support
notes |
* For users who previously operated their plant with Constant Rate tariff and ‘no-charging of batteries with grid’ settings, the financial benefit is likely to be similar. However, with active AI users get all the benefits of Intelligent Self-Consumption (see above). This includes automated and enhanced energy security, including navigation around ESKOM load-shedding for sites in South Africa. Where available, users should consider switching to variable rate tariffs to open up additional savings and earnings opportunities, effortlessly delivered with Mode 2.
** ** Typically, some earnings benefit from selling is achieved because the default behaviour of inverters is to sell once all demand has been met and battery SOC is at 100%. We do not claim it in these metrics as it will not be actively managed by the AI. Such earnings will be reflected in the separate ‘Payback & Investments’ metric.
*** In this mode, the AI simply automates timing of grid-trading to align with configured grid tariff timeslots for buy and sell rates, but does notapply any Intelligent Self-Consumption. Essentially, it makes this scheduling technique hassle-free to save you time/effort. Because this Mode operates to fill and then discharge the battery, we do not include Total Savings because that is a measure of the AI’s actions to preserve battery capacity to store predicted surplus solar which is not applied in this Mode.
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Total Savings | A measure of the combined benefit of predictive grid use minimisation and associated Intelligent Grid Trading within the context of the relevant plant, including available grid rate tariffs.
calculation basis
optimised battery storage capacity * lowest grid buy rate
definitions
optimised battery storage capacity (kWh) | The battery storage capacity preserved to store forecast surplus solar by accurately predicting and buying only the minimum quantity of grid needed to balance any forecast deficit of energy to meet forecast demand. Specifically, it is the difference between the forecast battery SOC at the end of the AI planned charge period and 100% battery SOC less any unplanned grid usage. Typically, ‘unplanned grid usage’ is very low, but any associated amount(s) are deducted to ensure a fair representation of our AI’s forecast accuracy and achieved performance.
lowest grid buy rate (local currency) | The lowest grid rate between sunset to sunrise during the first phase of the relevant 24-hour period. We use the lowest rate here rather than an ‘average rate’ so the gains shown are the most conservative, even though in a variable rate tariff situation an un-optimised system comparator with variable rates would likely purchase grid energy at different times and therefore potentially at a range of rates higher than the lowest rate.
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Total Earnings| Is a measure of the benefit of time-shifting the sale of specific amounts of any predicted surplus solar which cannot be used or stored, to a time of highest grid sell rate. Typically, inverters default to selling when battery SOC reaches 100% - at whatever time(s) and rates that occurs.
calculation basis
solar surplus sold * highest grid rate
definitions
solar surplus sold (kWh) | The quantity of forecast surplus solar available after forecast demand will be met and batteries will be charged to 100% SOC but only to the extent such surplus is actually sold to grid at times of optimised grid sell rates.
optimised grid selling rate (local currency)| The difference between the actual grid sell rate achieved by the AI and the average grid sell rate over the relevant 24-hour plan period. Adopting a conservative approach, we use ‘average rate’ here rather than ‘lowest rate’ to allow for the possibility an un-optimised system comparator with variable rates would likely sell grid energy at different times and therefore potentially at a range of rates.
Where used above, ‘grid rates’ refer to those available in the relevant period from your grid provider, which is dependent on your tariff and how rate settings have been configured by user/installer within SSCP. Where a plant is operated with a Constant Rate grid tariff, then the applicable ‘lowest’ or ‘highest’ grid rate is the applicable non-variable buy and sell rate, respectively.
The white ring around the Cash Gains total illustrates the scale of the Productivity Gain driving these gains.
2. Subscription Cost | This shows how much you have spent on your subscription over the period. The applicable monthly subscription price is apportioned equally across the number of days in the relevant month(s) and then shown as a cumulative total for the selected period.
3. Productivity Gain | This is a measure of how efficiently our AI has planned and managed use of your on-site battery storage resources to store the maximum amount of forecast surplus solar whilst, all at the same time and as applicable for selected mode, meeting your forecast energy demands and automatically optimising the economic benefit of grid buy and sell transactions.
calculation basis
[(optimised battery storage capacity + solar surplus sold)/(total energy used to meet demand + total energy sold to grid)] * 100
This metric reflects performance across all AI Modes. However, where Mode 3 is selected, the ‘optimised battery storage capacity’ component in this above formula would be applied as ‘zero’ as the optimised battery storage capacity techniques are not applied.
4. Direct CO2 Reduction | This shows the CO2 equivalent of the optimised battery storage capacity preserved to store available solar production over the period. This energy source is directly verifiable as ‘green energy’ and does not rely on indirect ‘carbon offset’ arrangements. It is expressed in kg and calculated as follows, using the UK Government Greenhouse Gas Conversion Factors for electricity (2023) of 0.20705 kg CO2e per kWh.
calculation basis
optimised battery storage capacity (kWh) * 0.20705 (kg)
AI Smart Plans | You can see this in SSCP. They show how your inverter settings are changed daily based on AI predictions and automated controls, designed to align with tomorrow’s predicted conditions and make the most of your Sunsynk system and applicable grid tariff opportunities. You may see ‘gridless’ days – where all your energy needs were met without buying any grid energy and, otherwise, will see that the daily amount of grid energy purchased and sold varies according to the AI plan.