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Integrating your solar panels Learn how to add information about your solar panels to Home Assistant home energy management.

Gain insight into your energy production by integrating your solar panels into Home Assistant.

If you also set up the Solar Forecast integration, you will be able to see expected solar production and automate based on planned production.

Graphic showing energy flowing from the solar panels to Home Assistant and back to the grid.

Hardware

Home Assistant will need to know the amount of energy that is being produced. This can be done in various ways.

Using a CT clamp sensor

{% include energy/ct_clamp.md %}

Connecting to your inverter

Some solar inverters have APIs that can be read by Home Assistant.

Energy integrations