A project moves through five stages: project details, bill data, consumption upload, solar & battery sizing, and the recommendation. Enter the tariff from a real bill (or let the AI extract it from a PDF), upload interval meter data as a CSV, and Amperage models every viable system size against your actual load — ending in scenario cards and a proposal you can export.
Amperage sizes solar from the bill, not the roof: you give it what the site actually pays and consumes, and it models every viable system against that. A project walks through five stages, in order — each one unlocks the next. The in-app guided tour covers the same ground interactively the first time you open each page; this is the reference version.
1. Project details
Name the project (usually the customer’s business name or site address), link it to a client, and set the location. The state and address matter more than they look: they select the weather data the production model uses and the incentive schemes the project is eligible for.
2. Bill data
Enter the tariff from a real electricity bill — flat rate or time-of-use, plus demand charges and daily supply charges where they apply. Two ways to do it:
- AI extraction (Pro tier): upload the bill PDF and the fields are extracted, normalised, and presented for your review. You confirm; nothing enters the model unreviewed.
- Manual entry: type the rates in. The calculated total should roughly match the customer’s actual bill — if it’s far off, a rate is wrong.
Unsure what a line on the bill means? The glossary covers TOU windows, demand charges, and daily charges.
3. Consumption
Upload interval meter data as a CSV. Column detection and cleaning are automatic — you verify the mapping, and the page charts the consumption profile. Look at the shape: daytime load is what solar can offset directly, and evening peaks are what a battery would need to cover.
4. Solar & battery
Pick a system size from the recommendations or dial in your own, and toggle battery analysis on if storage is on the table. Behind the scenes this builds the sizing matrix — every solar size crossed with every battery size, each modelled hour-by-hour (how the modelling works).
5. Recommendation
The verdict page: four scenario cards picked from the matrix with fixed rules (how the recommendations are picked), the sizing matrix itself, a Design Your Own section, and the trade-off table. Choose the scenario you want to lead with, then export — a PPTX presentation deck or a PDF proposal, branded with your company details.