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 — battery longevity, clean energy, or keeping an EV ready — and SolDial uses them as tie-breakers when two strategies are otherwise close.
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.