How to: Determining Energy Usage

Hello Solar friends! This is Channel from PurePoint Energy. After your solar system has been installed, there is plenty of useful information available to you. Here at PurePoint, we have been getting questions from our clients on how they can determine and understand their energy usage. I have listed below things you need in order to determine and understand your overall energy usage.

Here are a few things you will need:

• A Bill 
• Solar energy monitoring platform
• Correct billing cycle

1. From your bill you need two specific numbers:

• "Purchases from the utility" 
• "Sales to the utility"

2. From your Solar energy monitoring system:

• You can use the dates of the billing cycle on your bill to run a report on your solar energy platform.
• Once you have run a report, you will need the "total generation" number from your solar array.

3. Now that you have your total generation, sales to the utility and purchases from the utility, you will need these simple formulas to determine your energy usage:

•  (Total generation) - (Sales Utility) + (Purchases from Utility) = Total energy usage by the household for the billing cycle chosen.

• (Total generation) - (Sales Utility) = (the amount the solar array used in "real time")

• (the amount the solar array used in "real time") + (Purchases from Utility) = Total energy usage by the household for the billing cycle chosen.

Here at PurePoint Energy, we try to make our clients transition to solar as easy as possible. Make an appointment with PurePoint Energy today and go solar!