Energy Goals
One choice that shapes everything SolDial recommends. Tell it what matters most and Energy Autopilot and Suggestions build every plan around it.
Pick what matters most
In Settings → Energy Goals, choose a single primary objective:
- Save money — minimize what you pay. The best fit for most plans, and the default if you don’t choose.
- Energy independence — lean on your own solar and battery and pull from the grid as little as possible, even if it costs a little more.
- Backup readiness — keep the Powerwall charged for outages first; savings come second.
- Balanced — weigh cost, independence, and backup together, with no single priority winning.
A minimum backup reserve
Optionally set a reserve floor — the lowest backup reserve SolDial is ever allowed to set while running your automations. It’s a hard limit, separate from your live Backup Reserve slider, so an optimization can never leave you with less outage cushion than you’re comfortable with.
“Also important” cares
Flag secondary preferences and SolDial uses them as tie-breakers when two strategies are otherwise close. These include battery longevity, clean energy, and keeping an EV ready — and you can also pick a second of the main goals (saving money, energy independence, or backup readiness) as an “also important” priority, with whichever one is your primary goal left out of the list.
How it drives Autopilot and Suggestions
Your goal isn’t just a label. Energy Autopilot and Suggestions read it before they build anything, so a “backup readiness” user gets a fuller, outage-first plan while a “savings” user gets cost-first timing. SolDial also tailors the advice to your net-metering scheme: under 1:1 net metering, “independence” comes with a note that leaning on the battery can cost slightly more (round-trip loss), while under NEM 3.0 or Net Billing self-consumption is usually the money-saving move anyway.