From Rooftop to Revenue: How Smart Trading Turns Excess Solar into Monthly Payments
Most solar stories stop at the meter. Panels generate. The house uses what it can. The rest drifts out to the grid at a flat credit. Smart trading pushes the story further. It treats your battery like a small, disciplined trader that only acts when it matters.
The choreography is simple in concept, complex in execution. Software watches demand rising across the network. It notes weather, wholesale prices, local constraints. It looks at your reserve and your inverter’s limits. Then, for a few minutes, it lets energy flow — just enough to catch the peak, not enough to dent your backup. Multiply that by thousands of households and you have a virtual power plant doing real power‑plant work.
What lands in your account is the tangible bit: a monthly credit that reflects those moments. What lands in the grid is the invisible bit: a smoother evening, fewer calls to gas peakers, and a cleaner mix without drama. It’s a quiet kind of revenue. But it scales.