This Raspberry Pi Solar Panel Project Helps Monitor Your Power Bill

Your power bill can easily become one of your biggest monthly expenses. This project, created by BeepBoopWhat on Reddit, helps tackle that problem by using a Raspberry Pi to monitor solar panels and calculate their expected monthly impact on the power bill.

The project features a 3.5" LCD display panel which reads out pertinent information about power usage in real-time. The data collected comes from Envoy brand solar panels. A cycle completes every 20 seconds, calculating the expected cost or income based on tariff information provided by the power company.

If you want to read more about this project,  you can check out the code on GitHub and maybe even recreate it yourself.

Ash Hill
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Ash Hill is a contributing writer for Tom's Hardware with a wealth of experience in the hobby electronics, 3D printing and PCs. She manages the Pi projects of the month and much of our daily Raspberry Pi reporting while also finding the best coupons and deals on all tech.