Environmental Benefits

Purpose

Environmental Benefits is a tile that changes the solar energy of the plant into three environmental values.

Location

1. On the Dashboard, click the pencil to start edit mode.
2. Click Add New Widget.
3. Search for Environmental Benefits.
4. Click Add Widget.

For the Dashboard controls, see Dashboard overview.

Display

• CO2: the carbon dioxide that the solar energy saves, in kg. The widget uses 0.9 kg for each kWh.
• Water: the water that the solar energy saves, in L. The widget uses 1.35 L for each kWh.
• Electric car: the distance that an electric car drives on the same energy, in km. The widget uses 8.2 km for each kWh.

The widget uses the same three factors for all plants.

Settings

The spanner icon on the tile opens these settings. Only one period is on at a time. When you turn one on, the widget turns the others off.

• Daily: today. This is the default.
• Monthly: from the first day of the month to today.
• Yearly: from 1 January to today.
• Total: the full life of the plant, from the last PV energy reading of today.

Tips

• Date: the figures always end today. The date control of the Dashboard does not change them.
• Refresh: the figures update when the page opens and when you change the period.