Check your solar production data
The first step before booking a cleaning — confirm your panels are actually losing production.
What you'll learn
- Where to find your monitoring portal (Enphase Enlighten, SolarEdge, SMA, Tesla app)
- What a normal production curve looks like for your system size
- How to spot soiling vs. shading vs. hardware faults in the data
- Why a 5–15% jump after cleaning is typical for SD systems
Step by step
- Open your inverter brand's monitoring app or web portal.
- Pull a 7-day production view at panel or string level.
- Compare to last month's same week — is daily kWh trending down?
- Look for asymmetric panels: one or two producing visibly less than the rest.
- Note the date you last cleaned (or never cleaned) and book accordingly.
Safety note
If a single panel reads near zero while neighbors run normal, that's a hardware fault — not soiling. Mention it when you book so we bring an inspection drone.
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