Solar value scenario

How the calculation works

• On-site kWh = the smaller of annual household use and generation × self-consumption percentage ÷ 100.
• Exported kWh = generation − on-site kWh.
• Gross energy value = on-site kWh × avoided import value + exported kWh × export-credit value.
• Net annual value = gross energy value − operating allowance.
• Net capital = installed cost − separately confirmed non-repayable incentive.
• Simple recovery = net capital ÷ positive annual net value.

What the result assumes

• Starting costs, rates and on-site-use fraction are hypothetical. Replace them with your evidence.
• Repayable financing is not an incentive. Include only a separately confirmed non-repayable amount.
• This first-year cash-purchase model excludes financing, discounting, degradation, replacements, escalation and tax treatment. Remaining fixed utility charges are not erased.
• On-site use is a share of generated energy and is capped by annual demand; this annual simplification does not establish hourly feasibility.
• Simple recovery is a comparison at these inputs, not a guaranteed break-even date or an investment recommendation.

Check before using the result

• A separately confirmed incentive cannot exceed the quoted installed cost. Repayable financing is not an incentive.
• Zero or negative annual net value does not produce a simple capital-recovery estimate.
• On-site use is capped by annual household demand; yearly totals cannot establish hourly self-consumption.

Send the complete scenario into the solar quote request; retain assumptions in the editable brief.