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Enter or Confirm Electrical Usage

Confirm the consumption figure your proposal compares production against, and understand how it is spread across the year.

Electrical usage is what your offset and savings numbers are measured against. It usually imports on its own, so most of the time you are confirming a number rather than entering one.

1. Confirm the Usage Imported From the Project

Usage comes in from the project's Consumption page. Check that the figure matches what you expect from the customer's bill.

2. Enter Usage Manually if It's Blank

If nothing imported, enter either a monthly bill amount or an annual usage total. Either one is enough.

❗IMPORTANT Usage is divided evenly across twelve months. Neither the Proposal Tool nor the Scanifly Consumption page applies a seasonal load shape, so summer and winter peaks are not modeled anywhere in your proposal. There is no workaround for this. Whichever figure you enter, monthly or annual, the tool spreads it flat across the year.

What the Monthly Energy Profile Chart Shows

The Technical Analysis page of the proposal includes a monthly Energy Profile chart comparing consumption to production. Because usage is spread evenly across twelve months, that chart behaves in a specific way, and a customer will ask you about it.

What the chart does represent:

  • Your design's production, month by month, which genuinely varies with the season.
  • Your customer's total annual consumption, drawn as the same flat amount in every month.
  • The relationship between the two across a full year, which is what the offset percentage is based on.

What the chart does not represent:

  • Any month-to-month variation in your customer's usage. The flat consumption line is a product of dividing one figure by twelve, not a measurement of how they actually use power.
  • Seasonal peaks. If your customer runs air conditioning all summer, the chart will not show it.
  • A month-by-month promise. A month where the production bar sits above the flat consumption line is not a guarantee of a zero-dollar bill that month.

The honest way to describe the chart to a customer: production is modeled monthly and is accurate, consumption is an annual total shown evenly, and the comparison is meaningful over the year rather than in any single month.

For more information on Review Customer, Address, and Utility Information, please see this support article.

For more information on What's Included in the Standard Proposal, please see this support article.

For more information on The Proposal Editor: What Each Section Does, please see this support article.

If you have any questions or need further assistance, please reach out to our chat support or email hello@scanifly.com.