October 2025

We’re excited to share the latest updates designed to make your experience in Solo smoother, smarter, and more accurate. Check out what’s new below—and don’t forget to reach out if you have any questions!

DirectDesign 2.0 is here! 🎉

With an updated user interface, more accurate shade reporting, and tree modeling, DirectDesign 2.0 gives you more control and precision than ever before.

👉 To get started, reach out to your Account Manager to get set up and walk through the beta features.

👉   Read all about what's included in DirectDesign 2.0 here! 

📈 New Graph Page

• Monthly & Annual Summaries: Default view shows total monthly consumption vs. estimated solar production. You can scroll month‑by‑month or pick a specific month.
• Daily Average vs. Monthly Total: You can toggle between showing energy data as “daily averages” or full monthly totals.
• Energy Flow Breakdown: A view showing exactly how much energy is coming from PV production, battery discharge, or grid imports/exports. Hovering over hours shows the detailed breakdown.
• Battery Integration: When a battery is part of the system, the graph dynamically shows battery charge/discharge usage and capacity.

👉 Learn more and see what changes look link in this Help Center article! 

☀️ Why Solar Page Updates

To ensure the information on this page is accessible and relevant for a variety of audiences, we’ve updated certain sections with more universal language. The affected areas are:

• The Government Has Your Back
  • New Title: Predictable Energy, Predictable Budget
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• Saving Green and Going Green
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🌐 New Field Options inside the Contract Sent Webhook

There are now 18 additional fields inside the Contract Sent Webhook available to all users! 

Below are all of the new fields that can be utilized.

1. Utility Account
2. Utility Meter Number
3. Battery Model
4.  Lender Name
5. Customer County
6. Number of Modules
7.  Module Name
8.  Battery Count
9.  Loan/Lease Term
10.  Battery Capacity
11.  Year 1 Monthly Payment
12.  Lease Escalator
13. Year 1 Annual Production
14.  Inverter Manufacturer
15.  Docs Type
16.  Loan Interest Rate
17.  Additional Request
18.  Battery Operating Mode – Backup vs. Non-backup

👉 What is Included in a Payload?

👉 Setting up a Webhook

🔋Battery Improvements 

• We have Implemented a new offset calculation on the proposal that uses all production to offset usage. This update has the largest impact on the battery savings of systems with a smaller solar offset.
• Companies can now choose to disable battery discharge beyond home consumption, putting batteries in Self Consumption Mode. When disabled, proposals will show more conservative battery savings and higher post-solar utility bills, particularly affecting California estimates.

  • This setting can be managed in MissionControl → Company Settings → Enable Battery Export.

    

    • Default: ON (batteries discharge to the grid)

• • • Turning off: Limits discharge to home use only

✅ Recheck

If you use Sungage financial options, please keep this in mind: 

• A reminder modal now appears when using Sungage options if you still need to verify with Recheck
• By End of March 2026, you’ll need to have synced your Recheck account with your Solo account in order to continue using Sungage options.

👉 Click here to learn how to sync your Recheck account with Solo

🔮 Coming Soon

• Puerto Rico support for LightReach will be coming soon! Stay tuned for more updates. 

🆕 Fresh Content in the Help Center