Environmental Benefits
What it shows
A tile of the green savings from your solar system: carbon dioxide avoided, water saved, and how far an electric vehicle would travel on the same energy.
Where to find it
Open Dashboard, click the pencil in the dashboard top bar to enter edit mode, click Add New Widget, search the picker for Environmental Benefits, then click Add Widget.
Reading it
Three figures, all worked out from the solar energy your site produced over the chosen period:
- CO2 avoided in
kg- the carbon emissions you did not put out by using solar instead of grid power. - Water saved in
L- the water that would have been used generating the same power from the grid. - EV distance in
km- the same energy expressed as kilometres an electric vehicle could drive.
Settings
Open the spanner icon on the tile to choose the period the figures cover:
- Daily - today so far. This is the setting a new tile starts on.
- Monthly - from the first of the month to today.
- Yearly - from the first of January to today.
- Total - the whole life of the site.
Only one can be on at a time: switching one on switches the other three off.
Tips
Set it to Total to show the lifetime benefit of the system at a glance, then switch to Monthly when you want to track savings as they build up.