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.
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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