Your SolarEdge inverter and the SolarEdge monitoring portal dashboard provide you with information regarding your energy production. These do not show you the energy you are exporting to your electrical utility, nor detail your consumption.

Some utilities will provide you the amount of energy you imported from and exported to the grid during the billing period. Other utilities only provide the net amount you imported from their grid or zero, if you exported more than you imported.

If you are like some of our solar customers, you’d like to have your own source of this information to compare to your bill.

Below is a review of the first of three solutions for you to consider.

NOTE: As always, it is best to read multiple independent reviews before deciding on one of these products.

SolarEdge provides a consumption meter that adds the ability to track

1. The energy you import from the utility,
2. The energy you export to the utility,
3. Your total energy consumption regardless of the source of the energy, and
4. Your self-consumption, the amount of energy you consumed that your array produced.

The advantages of the SolarEdge option are

1. It is fully integrated into the SolarEdge monitoring portal, displaying the above information on the dashboard (see the illustrations below),
2. It interfaces seamlessly with your SolarEdge inverter, and
3. There is the ability to add or remove information from the graphs for clarity.

The diagram below shows a view of a full month of production at a glance including Consumption (in red), Solar Production (in green) and Self-consumption (in blue). The graph below shows energy imported (from the grid) and exported (to the grid).