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Plan your power • Jamaica

Your solar starting point.

Use your JPS energy usage and appliance list to explore panels, storage and inverter capacity. No prices, no sign-up. Get a tailored quote after a site assessment.

Planning estimate only, not an electrical design or installation specification. Actual equipment, wiring, protection, roof capacity and utility requirements must be checked by a qualified professional.

01 / Your energy use

Start with your bill or appliances

On a JPS bill, enter kWh consumed, not the dollar amount or meter reading. For example, 500 kWh over 30 days is about 16.7 kWh/day. kW describes power, not monthly energy.

Your appliance list sizes peak power and backup. It is not added to the bill's energy total.

Energy offset is not a guaranteed bill reduction, off-grid capability or permission to export power.

02 / Appliances & backup

What do you want to power?

Add TVs, ACs, freezers, pumps and more. Typical wattage and usage estimates are filled in automatically. Tap a row to adjust quantity, watts or hours. Defaults vary by model, efficiency and habits; they are not equipment specifications. Check labels or measured power. For inverter sizing, include all loads that may run together.

No appliances added. You can estimate panels from a bill, but add loads to estimate inverter and battery size.

Duty cycle is the percentage of the selected hours drawing the listed power. Use 100% for a measured average wattage to avoid reducing it twice. Startup multiplier estimates motor surge; verify against equipment specifications.

Select “Back up” on essential loads. Storage covers this backup period only, not automatically all overnight consumption or several cloudy days. Backup is estimated without solar generation during the outage.

03 / Planning assumptions

Make the estimate yours

Solar conditions & panel size

4.5 peak sun hours and 75% yield are preliminary assumptions, not a site-specific resource study. Shading, heat, orientation and seasonal weather can change production. Peak sun hours are not daylight hours.

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