Production report
The printable multi-page production report.
Reviewed
What this is for
The A4 sheet that leaves the building. It is read on paper or as a PDF by somebody who was not in the room, so every number that could be questioned carries what produced it. The on-screen result is for deciding what to change; this is for handing over.
Six pages. The toolbar (back to the result, Print) is not on the paper.
Steps
- From a finished result, open Production report, or Report PDF from the overflow. A run with no result says so and prints nothing.
- Page 1 is the summary: project, design, condition set, the four headline figures, nameplates, module / string / inverter counts, monthly production (kilowatt-hours and peak kilowatts DC).
- Page 2 is the loss waterfall. Page 3 is the donut and constrained DC output by cause. Page 4 is the condition set's assumptions: weather source, horizon, transposition and cell-temperature models, albedo, AC losses, availability, both degradations, the temperature coefficients for each racking type, monthly soiling, and on a bifacial design the rear-side irradiance. Page 5 is field segments (the plane the run transposed onto, not the racking pitch against the roof) and shading by segment, plus solver metrics. Page 6 is production probability, the uncertainty table, and the bill of materials.
- If the run is stale, a warning sits above the sheet naming what moved: re-run before sending this to anybody. The number on the paper is still the old one. Print leaves that warning off the paper; Report PDF prints it on its first page.
- The footer of every page is provenance: who generated it, which engine model, the grid-code verdict if the market has one, the page number. Above it sits a one-sentence disclaimer about what a modelled figure is, when the deployment sets one. That is its own article.
The production figures are modelled. The engine is not validated against a measured year. Catalogue rows and tariff prices say so on their own screens.
Tips and common mistakes
- Do not send a stale sheet. The warning is the product refusing to pretend the design still matches.
- A conductor row on the bill is metres, not a count. Nobody orders 87 lengths of cable.
- Flush-mount tilt on this sheet is the building's plane. The racking's own pitch against the roof is zero on a flush array and would look as if the array were flat.