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Tell SunShift about your panels, your battery and what you run. Every other screen works from these answers.
A household in Lusaka with 3 kWp of panels and a 5.12 kWh battery. Change anything below and save to model your own installation instead — nothing here is fixed.
Search for the town or city where your panels and battery are installed. Live weather and solar timing use this location.
Current site: Lusaka · -15.417, 28.283 · 1280 m · Africa/Lusaka
Enter the total number of ZESCO units you have purchased in the current month. SunShift uses the residential tariff bands to estimate today’s solar and battery savings.
Add one or more email recipients. Confirm each person has agreed to receive alerts. SunShift only sends when you press the alert button for an at-risk cut on the Power cuts screen.
Up to 10 recipients. Each person must agree to receive these alerts.
1.20 kWh a day
0.36 kWh a day
0.45 kWh a day
0.90 kWh a day
2.20 kWh a day
0.75 kWh a day
Enter the hours your power is scheduled to go off. SunShift will work out whether your battery covers each one. Day 1 is today, day 2 is tomorrow — the pattern repeats.
Get a Telegram message when your battery needs attention. SunShift checks every 15 minutes against the weather forecast, starting from your last battery reading, and every message says which reading it used.