To use the Energy Planner you must log in to Sunny Portal (ennexos.sunnyportal.com). Click on 'Configuration' and then on 'Energy management'

N.B.: if you do not see the heading 'Energy management' (and only see for example: 'energy management'), then your system is not (yet) suitable for the Energy Planner. If you have a Sunny Boy smart energy hybrid inverter, it may still be set as a 'subordinate' inverter and not as a 'system manager'.

Choose the 'Energy Planner' by clicking on the box:

On the home page of the Energy Planner you will find some more explanation (under the button 'How it works'). Here you can also already create different 'operating modes' that you can use in your time schedule. Click on 'New operating mode' at the bottom of the page:

On this page you can now create different operating modes, which you can then use in your time schedule. Let's start with the operating mode 'Feed-in'. Click on the box and then on 'next' at the bottom of the page.

With the operating mode 'feed-in' we can select several things. Therefore you must give each operating mode its own name: you can in principle create several different ways of feed-in and use them all in your time schedule.

You can choose to feed in only solar power (and nothing from the battery), or feed in all power including the battery. In addition, you can set a lower limit in the battery: this way a minimum reserve capacity is always maintained. And finally you can set a discharge power (in Watts).

In a similar way you can also create one or more 'operating modes' for importing power from the grid. Eventually you can find all the 'operating modes' you have created under 'Operating modes' by clicking on the arrow in the circle:

When you have created all desired 'operating modes', you can use them to put in a time schedule. Click on 'Create new time schedule':

Give the new time schedule a name. Choose one of the created operating modes as 'default operating mode' using the dropdown. It is probably most logical to select 'Self-consumption optimization' as default. This means that during all time periods where you do not fill in anything later, the system has the normal way of functioning (namely storing excess power and consuming it yourself in the evening). We can create separate time periods on top of the default mode during which power is imported or exported for example. Indicate in which period of the year this time schedule should be active. Then click on 'Next'

You are now on the page 'Time Plan' and can click here on 'New schedule'.

For each time period in which you want the system to use a different operating mode than the default mode, you can create a box. Select the mode for that time period, select the days of the week on which that mode should be active, and also the hours from when to when. Then click on 'Apply'

In this way you can complete the entire time schedule. In the overview you see the result for the week. In the example below 'Self-consumption optimization' is the default mode. On Monday through Friday from 17:00 to 21:00 hours the operating mode switches to feed-in:

By clicking on 'save' the new time schedule is saved for use. On the overview page you can see if the new time schedule is active. You can then also edit it again by clicking on the three dots (in the red circle). In addition, you can create other time schedules.

In this way you can configure the SMA Energy Planner so that your system does exactly what you want at the moment you want it. This function does not work together with the Energy Maximizer; if you use the Energy Maximizer then the system reacts automatically and does not listen to a set time schedule. In the Sunny Portal manual you will find more information about the SMA Energy Planner and about the Energy Maximizer.