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Utility Bill Calcs on California's NEM 2.0
As California's investor owned utilities have been transitioning to new Net Energy Metering 2.0 rates, we often get questions about how this affects utility bill calculations and resulting savings.…
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Utility Bills
What is "Supply Rate" when inputting customer energy use?
A tariff may have a "Supply Rate" which is the cost per kWh of energy for your individual customer. In deregulated markets like Texas, customers can buy their energy from one of many providers,…
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Utility Bills
Can't find a specific PV panel (aka module) or inverter, how can I add it?
If you want to add a PV panel (aka module), inverter, or DC optimizer to your Company Catalog, you first access the Public Catalog and choose it from there.…
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Managing Company Catalog
How can I create multiple prices for one product?
IF you are using the cost item approach, you can update your existing items to have variable cost structure. This would allow you to create selections based on the sector, or other relevant variables.…
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Managing Company Catalog
How do I delete a project?
You must have Administrative or Sales Management permissions to delete a project. Projects can only be deleted from the Sales screen, or from the project Search results.…
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Managing Projects
How to Change the Customer for an Existing Project?
This article describes how to change the Customer for a given Project. There are two separate scenarios where you may need to change out the Customer on an existing project:…
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Managing Projects
How is LCOE Calculated?
LCOE, or levelized cost of energy is an economic assessment of the average total cost to build and operate a power-generating asset over its lifetime divided by the total power output of the asset…
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Financial Analysis
Why is the Federal ITC amount less than the ITC's percentage of the gross price?
The reason that your Federal ITC amount could be less than ITC's percentage of the gross customer price is that the tax credit basis has been modified by other incentives.…
4 mths ago
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Financial Analysis
Why is there no value for Internal Rate of Return (IRR) in Analysis?
If SolarNexus displays no value for the internal rate of return (or IRR) of a solution's finance scenario in the Analysis, its because there is no upfront investment of capital being made,…
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Financial Analysis
What is Discount Rate?
Discount rate is a fundamental assumption in investment analysis. SolarNexus uses the input discount rate in its calculations of investment metrics, such as IRR, NPV,…
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Financial Analysis
How do I configure the default incentives for storage systems?
As of 2018, most PV-coupled residential storage systems installed in the US are eligible for the Federal ITC, so you will likely want to set up SolarNexus to apply the Federal ITC to residential…
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2 mths ago
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Financial Analysis
How to Consider PV Production Losses from Snow Coverage?
When installing PV systems in areas that get snowfall, you should consider snow as a source of PV production losses. These losses can be significant during the winter months.…
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2 mths ago
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PV System Design and Production Estimates
How do I model the boost from bifacial modules?
SolarNexus doesn't currently offer an automated way to calculate the boost from bifacial panels; this is something you'll need to estimate using a formula or tool provided by the manufacturer,…
4 mths ago
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PV System Design and Production Estimates
Why are SolarNexus PV estimates different from PVWatts / CSI EPBB calculator?
2016-05 Update: SolarNexus no longer uses Clean Power Estimator's "PV Simulator." All PV simulations are run using PVWatts. There are no longer differences between SolarNexus and PVWatts simulations.…
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2 mths ago
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PV System Design and Production Estimates
Why does the PV Output graph show odd data for certain months?
Occasionally, customers run across anomalous PV production patterns in an analysis, where one or two months show significantly lower production than expected.…
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2 mths ago
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PV System Design and Production Estimates
How does SolarNexus estimate PV production?
SolarNexus integrates NREL's PVWatts (pvwatts.nrel.gov) for PV system production estimates. You can verify SolarNexus production estimates with PVWatts output,…
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PV System Design and Production Estimates
Can I import PV production estimates from external tools like PV Syst?
Presently, no. However, you can make SolarNexus reflect nearly the same production values by adjusting the SolarNexus' production estimate using the following process...…
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PV System Design and Production Estimates
What is the proper format for entering latitude/longitude when the site address can't be found?
When the site address can't be found in the SolarNexus address database and you check the "Manually enter latitude/longitude" checkbox, you should enter the latitude/longitude like this: Latitude: 38.…
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PV System Design and Production Estimates
My arrays appear to have shifted in the image, how to fix?
The good news is that your arrays have not actually shifted. The bad news is that sometimes aerial image providers find errors in their imagery coordinates and when they fix it,…
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PV System Design and Production Estimates
Solution Pricing - Cost Item Method
Pricing your customer solutions properly is one of the most important aspects of operating a profitable contracting business. SolarNexus provides two basic approaches for pricing your solutions:…
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Resources: Service Offerings, Pricing, & Solution
About Loan / Dealer Fees
Loan fees are not added until the Analysis is run. Loan fees are tacked on to your solution's retail price defined on the Price screen. SolarNexus excludes loan fees from the rest of the pricing…
4 mths ago
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Manage Sales Opportunities
Creating Leads
SolarNexus can act as your lead management database. A lead includes a customer. The customer is an individual or organization (business, non-profit, government) that is interested in purchasing…
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Create and Manage Jobs (Projects and Work Orders)
Labels
Labels are used to track data at the project level that are not otherwise tracked in SolarNexus. They are also meant to be a way of tagging special circumstances that may arise on projects.…
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Create and Manage Jobs (Projects and Work Orders)
Managing Job Status with Milestones
This article covers how to use the Status section of the Management Panel on the right side of the Project Workspace to manage the current status information of your jobs (leads/projects/work orders)…
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Create and Manage Jobs (Projects and Work Orders)
Pricing a Solution
Each solution has a customer Price. The solution template selected when you create the solution determines the pricing method used (Gross Price Input or Cost Items).…
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Manage Sales Opportunities
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