Now you’ve got solar, you’ve installed one of the most popular and reliable inverter brands in the entire industry: Solis. When you get a system through First Class Solar, our technician will set up your solar monitoring app at your post-installation visit. With a Solis inverter, this app is called “SolisCloud.” This blog will run through some of the most common parts of SolisCloud and how to navigate it!
We’ve chosen a system in Strabane, Co Tyrone to focus on, installed in early March 2025. The system consisted of the following equipment:
- 16 x 440W PV Panels (total capacity = 7.04kW)
- 3.6kW Solis Hybrid Inverter
- 10kWh Dyness Li-Ion Battery
- myenergi eddi & harvi
- 16 x Tigo Optimisers, fitted to each panel.
App Overview
How to get to this screen: click on your system name, for example “Jones Home” – this will take you to the overview screen.
This shows the system location, the day’s weather forecast and minimum/maximum temperatures, as well as the daylight hours
The wheel shows the capacity at which the system is currently operating – in this case, there is 5.881kW of power being generated, out of a maximum of 7.04kW, meaning the system is performing at ~84% capacity.
Below the capacity wheel, you can click between generation, battery, grid and load. In this example:
Other Insights:
- Today’s grid import: 5.76kWh
- The number of kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity this home needed to import from the grid today
- Monthly import: 95.76kWh
- How much electricity (kWh) this property had to import from the grid over the month so far
- Total grid import to date: 1.327MWh
- The number of kWh this Strabane home has needed to import from the grid since having the solar system installed.
- Total export to grid: 502.32kWh (at the current rate of 10.32p/kW from Power NI, this equates to ~£51.74 earned). This is the amount of kWh exported since the system was installed in March 2025.
This screen refreshes every 5 minutes and brings up the new data for that 5 minute block. Please note that if you do want to see what is happening on your system LIVE, you’ll want to look at the screen on the inverter itself!
Energy Flow Summary
How do you navigate to this page? You get to see this data in the form of a flow-chart, or as a list (as seen in the image above) – to see it as a list, click on the little box on the right side of the screen, across from “Power Flow.”
This Power Flow page shows the balanced use of solar, storage (battery) and grid-usage over the current day, the current month, the current year, and your totals since you’ve had the system installed. In this customer’s situation, most of the total load (3.518MWh) has been covered by the solar and battery, as they’ve only had to import (pay for) 1.327MWh.
Key Insights:
- PV: this system has produced 7.2kW today, 152.5kWh this month and 2.732MWh this year, with a total of 2.744MWh.
- You can see the same for the units of imported and exported electric
- Charge and Discharge refer to the battery – for example, the battery has charged (stored) 991kWh since the system was installed, and has discharged 940kWh of this.
- Load: refers to how much electricity has been required by your home.
In this scenario, if we assume that the customer is paying a flat rate of 28p/kWh, the total load of 3.518MWh would have cost them, prior to solar, £985.04.
However, they’ve only had to import 1.327MWH, paying £371.56.
They have also exported 503.32kWh, which Power NI currently pays 10.3p per kilowatt for, which equates to £51.84 in credit that this customer has earned.
This means that for £985.04 of usage, this customer has ended up paying £319.72 for their electric, which is an amazing £665.32 of savings across just 4 months.
Daily Graph – 2 July 2025
Navigation: On the overview page, if you scroll down to find “Operating Data” – you can choose to see this by day, month, year or total. In the screenshot below, we’ve chosen a specific day to look at, the 2nd July.
Key Insights:
- Total PV generation: 32kWh — a strong solar day.
- 82% of the production was used by the home: Only 5.88kWh exported – this shows quite a high usage, which makes the solar very worthwhile.
- Self-consumption: 26.12kWh used directly or stored in battery.
- The graph shows peak solar generation around midday and steady battery discharge later in the day. You can also see a lot of spike in house load (orange), most likely signifying fluctuating but consistent house loads in this property.
- Peter, First Class Solar Director: “On sunny days, this system easily generates over 30kW — with most of it self-consumed thanks to smart battery usage”.
Daily Graph – 5 July 2025
Navigation: Similar to the above from the overview page, down to operating data and then we’ve chosen a different day, the 5th July.
Key Insights:
- Lower PV day: 10.8kWh produced
- 99% self-use (just 0.12kWh exported)
- Grid import: just 0.053kWh
- At the shown time of 13:30, you can see that the battery and solar are working together to cover the house load – with a load of 2.027kW, the PV producing 1.313kW, the battery made up the majority of the difference (0.661kW), with a small amount imported from the grid (0.053kW).
- Great autonomy on a low-sun day
Even on the darker, overcast Northern Irish days we know and love, this system keeps grid imports to nearly zero thanks to battery storage and well-matched load profiles.”
Monthly/Annual Summary (May 2025)
How to Navigate there: From the overview page, scroll down to “Operating Data,” and choose “Year.” This shows month by month profiles, and you can click on a specific month by pressing the corresponding number below the graph – in the example, number 5 is the 5th month of the year, May.
Key Insights:
- PV in May: 900kWh
- Load: 875.12kWh
- Imported: 224.28kWh
- Exported: 233.16kWh
- Shows an efficient month — almost all load covered by solar + batteries, with solid export value too.
May performance: With 900kWh of solar and nearly all household needs covered, this home only needed 224kWh from the grid for the month, during periods of low daylight or high house loads.
The SolisCloud app is definitely one of the best on the market. The amount of system data being recorded and displayed by the inverter each day is incredible, giving all Solis customers the option to do a deep dive into their system. We at First Class Solar believe that the more information people have, the more money they can save each day, month and year!
