Help & FAQ

How Sims works, and what the numbers mean

How Sims works

Four stages between an electricity bill and a client-ready sizing report.

You give it

Twelve bills and a map pin

Billed units per month, split the way your bill splits them, plus the site’s location and DISCOM tariff.

It builds

A year, hour by hour

Monthly totals become 8,760 hourly readings; NASA POWER irradiance for your pin becomes a matching solar year.

solar MWp →

It searches

Every size, scored

Every solar capacity against every battery size, each through a full hourly dispatch, ranked by your goal.

You get

Options and a report

The recommended build beside today’s cost and your own scenarios, exportable as a branded PDF, CSV or spreadsheet.

The basics

What the product is and what it needs from you.

Running a study

Choosing an analysis, a goal, and how much to fiddle with.

Reading the results

What the studio is showing you, and what the numbers mean.

Reports, branding and your account

Getting the study out of the browser and in front of a client.

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