Apr 2026 1 Apr 2026 – 30 Apr 2026 Updated 8th November 2026
Total benefit
£276
Saved on bills
£218
Earned exporting
£58
Top solar day
59.8
kWh on 24 Apr 2026
Solar generated
977
kWh · 51% used at home
Battery discharged
505
kWh · £78 of the saving
Exported
483
kWh sold back to the grid
EV charging
£13
222 kWh · not counted as saving
Would have paid
£317
with no solar and no battery
Actually paid
£99
before export payments and standing charge
Household use
1,293
kWh · 35% not bought from the grid
Paid back
24%
£4,536 of £18,990 · 5.5 yrs to go
Heating
673
kWh · £42 of the bill
By day 1 Apr → 30 Apr
Solar Used Battery Exported Benefit (£) Cash flow (£)
61 0 kWh £13 0 −£7

This tool was built with Claude

Every line of it — the Octopus and AlphaESS clients, the settlement model, this screen — was written in conversation with Anthropic's Claude. Here is what that cost.

Tokens
110.8million
across 364 requests · measured
Electricity
2.3kWh
estimated · 0.7–8.3
Carbon
294g CO₂e
estimated · 83–1,039
Fresh water
2.5litres
cooling only · 0.7–9.0

Roughly 3.9% of what this roof made on its best day.

Only the token count is measured. Anthropic publishes no per-token energy figures, so the rest is inferred from Google's first-party measurements of its own models and from published per-token estimates — two methods that disagree by about ninety times, which is why these are ranges and not numbers. The water figure covers datacentre cooling only, not the water used to generate the electricity, so read it as a floor. Model training is excluded: it is shared across everyone who ever uses the model and cannot be fairly attributed to one project.

By day 1 Apr → 30 Apr
Solar 977kWh Used 1,293kWh Battery 505kWh Exported 483kWh Benefit (£) £276 Cash flow (£) −£41
61 0 kWh £13 0 −£7
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