Is your solar actually any good?
Your app shows you your own numbers. It can’t tell you whether they’re good. Share your plant with us read-only and we’ll show you where you sit against other South African systems — free.
We are not asking for your login
Pick your brand
- Sign in at sunsynk.net on a laptop (the web portal shares more reliably than the app).
- Open My Plants → Plant List, find your plant, and click the three dots (…) in the More column on the right → Share.
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Enter this account and choose the Visitor role — view only:
monitor@energymapper.net - Come back and tell us it’s done so we know to look for it.
Only the account that created the plant can share it. If your installer set it up under their name, the Share option won’t appear — ask them to share it, or to transfer the plant to you. Happy to send them the wording if that helps.
- Sign in at vrm.victronenergy.com and open your installation.
- Go to Settings → Users and click Add user.
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Invite this address, and set the access level to Monitoring only
(not Full control):
monitor@energymapper.net - Come back and tell us it’s done.
VRM also offers a read-only share link if you’d rather not add a user at all — that works for us too. Paste it into the form below instead.
- Sign in at semsportal.com, or open the SEMS Portal app.
- Open your plant, scroll down to the visitor section, and type in this address:
monitor@energymapper.net - Submit. A plant can have one owner and as many visitors as you like, so this takes nothing away from your own access.
- Come back and tell us it’s done.
GoodWe is one of the easy ones — you can do the whole thing yourself, without your installer, and remove us again from the same screen.
First, a quick check, because SolarEdge differs from the others. Sign in at monitoring.solaredge.com, open your site, and look for an Admin tab.
No Admin tab? That’s normal, and it isn’t something you can fix from your side — SolarEdge keeps the sharing controls there, and on most installations the tab belongs to whoever commissioned the system. Being able to see everything on the dashboard isn’t the same permission. Tell us below and we’ll ask your installer, with your say-so. It’s a two-minute job for them.
You do have one? Then it’s quick:
- Go to Admin → Site Access → Access Control and add a new user.
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Use this address, give it a view-only role, and grant access to this
one site:
monitor@energymapper.net - Come back and tell us it’s done.
A site-level API key does the same job and is just as revocable — but it lives in that same Admin area, so it needs the same permission. It isn’t a way round a missing Admin tab.
Straight answer: LuxPower has no “add a visitor” button. LuxCloud organises plants in a tree — distributor, installer, then you — and a plant is attached to that tree when it’s registered. There’s no way for you to hand view-only access to an outsider afterwards. So we won’t pretend otherwise, and we’re not going to ask you for your LuxCloud password instead.
Which leaves one honest option: a LuxPower plant reaches us through a login, not a share. We’re registered with LuxPower SA and we’ll send you our installer code and walk you through it — but we’re not going to slip that past you on a page whose whole argument is that we don’t want your password.
Be clear-eyed about what that means: a LuxCloud account is not view-only. The same login that shows you the numbers also drives Remote Settings — battery limits, operating mode, generator port. That is a genuinely bigger ask than the visitor role on the other platforms, and if it’s a no, it’s a perfectly sensible no.
If it’s a yes, start the conversation below and we’ll tell you exactly what gets stored, and how to cut it off the moment you want to.
Growatt, Solarman, Sungrow, Huawei, SMA, Goodwe — most of them have some form of “share plant” or “add visitor”, and we’re adding platforms as people bring them. A few we genuinely can’t read yet, and we’d rather tell you that than take your details and go quiet.
Tell us the brand below and we’ll reply with the exact steps for your portal — or an honest “not yet, we’ll come back to you”.
What you get back
Your benchmark
Where your site sits against every other system on the platform — solar self-consumption, grid reliance, battery round-trip. Yours is named. Everyone else’s is anonymous, including yours to them.
A straight answer
If your system is underperforming for its size and location, the comparison shows it. Independent engineers, no panels to sell you.
A better picture for everyone
Every plant added makes the South African dataset sharper — which is what makes the next person’s benchmark worth reading.
Tell us it’s shared
We’ll go and look, then email you either way — confirmed, or what went wrong. No need to hunt for your plant name; we work that out from our side.
The obvious questions
Do you need my password?
On Sunsynk, Victron and SolarEdge, no — and that’s the whole point of doing it this way. You add our account from inside your own portal, the same way you’d add your spouse or your installer. Your password never leaves you.
LuxPower is the exception, because LuxCloud has no visitor role to add anyone to. There the only route is a login, we say so plainly on its tab, and it’s a fine thing to decline.
Can you change my settings? Charge my battery? Turn something off?
No. Visitor on Sunsynk, Monitoring-only on VRM and a view role on SolarEdge are read-only roles — the portal rejects a write from us, so this isn’t something you have to take our word for.
What exactly do you look at?
Production, consumption, grid import and export, and battery state over time. Not your address, not your bank, not your name in anyone else’s report.
Who else sees my data?
In the benchmark, other people see your numbers under a pseudonym, with no site name and no link back to you. You see your own site named, and everyone else’s anonymised. Details are in our Privacy Policy.
How do I get rid of you?
Remove the visitor from the same screen you added it on. It takes about five seconds and needs nothing from us. Ask us to delete what we’ve stored and we’ll do that too.
What’s the catch? Who’s paying for this?
No catch. EnergyMapper is built by independent engineers — Invint and Holistic Energy — to do our own analysis work properly. A benchmark is worthless with ten sites in it and genuinely useful with a thousand, so we’d rather give the report away and have the data. We don’t sell panels, inverters or your contact details.
Know someone with solar?
“Free report showing how your solar compares to other SA systems. They don’t want your password — you just add them as a view-only visitor on your app, and you can remove them any time.”