Smart Panels
Smart panels are advanced electrical panels that allow home owners the lowest cost, cleanest source of energy available at anytime while also monitoring their energy use in real time.
What are Smart Panels
Smart Panels are wifi connected electrical panels that give you detailed monitoring, control, and management of your home’s energy usage via an app. This allows for circuit level tracking, customized load management, and seamless integration of other cost saving energy appliances like solar, battery systems, utility based time-of-use programs and EV chargers.
Smart panels offer features like automated load shedding during outages, optimizing solar energy use, and transforming a home’s electrical system into an intelligent energy hub.
Load Management
Smart panels automatically manage your electrical loads by using sensors and smart circuit breakers so that you canmonitor your real-time energy consumption on individual circuits! Smart panels automatically prioritize, schedule, or disconnect non-essential energy loads whenever you want.
How Smart Panels Save Money
Load Shedding
Load shedding refers to the practice of turning off unnecessary energy in your home to save money on energy costs. Smart panels preform load shedding under customized circumstances that you can program to fit your needs.
For example, let’s say your oven is a parasitic load that is consuming energy while it’s not being used. You can easily program your smart panel to switch the circuit to your oven off at night or hours during the day that you are not home.
Different Types of Smart Panels
Smart Breaker Panel
Smart panels deliver a streamlined Smart Home and Energy Management experience by unifying control, scheduling, and personalization into a smart breaker panel that can be controlled from an app on your phone.
Example: Leviton Smart Panel
Panel & Meter
This load center integrates your meter, main breaker panel, sub panel, and backup switch in one. This can be controlled and managed all from an app on your phone. Enjoy having an all in one load center for your home.
Example: Schneider Home Pulse
Circuit Module
Circuit modules install into your existing breaker box and are controlled through an app. You can choose which circuits to automate but it may take up significant room in your panel. These are ideal for people who only want control over a few of their home circuits.
Example: Leviton Smart Circuit Breaker
Smart Panel Minnesota Incentives
Minnesota offers some smart panel incentives and financing options that can help you reduce the cost of your upgrade so you can lock in customized energy for decades!