Enphase's Enlighten app's AI assistant
Enphase decided to add an AI assistant to their app because... who knows. So I've been playing with it a bit.
"What's my production forecast?"
I assume it checks local cloud cover prediction and bases it with my own historical production because it's been pretty close to actual production for the last week. It either under-estimates by 2-8% or it overestimates by about 20%. One week isn't enough data to evaluate, but I'll keep checking it.
"Produce a table of my energy consumption for 2024 in 15-minute increments"
"I checked your system, and I found that your site doesn't have a consumption meter installed or enabled..."
"My site DOES have consumption monitoring" (eye roll)
"You're right, I apologize for the confusion! Your site does have consumption monitoring..." And it gave me hourly consumption from all of 2024, stating that 15-minute increment data is no longer stored.
I also asked for all of 2023's and all the 2022 consumption data. This was useful because that data is too old for me to request it via reports through the app normally, and I didn't want to pay $250 for a lifetime license to access all the data that they and the installers can access.
" How dirty do you estimate my panels are, and how much production is being lost per day because of that?"
"I can't provide an exact estimate of panel soiling or production loss without comparing current output to the same period last year." and then suggestions of how to figure it out myself, such as "look at it from the ground with binoculars" It offered to compare last August to this year's.