Questions and discussion about solar, batteries, and electrification
We just received notification on the Solar command website that we will be part of our first "event" from between 4:30 and 5:30pm today
"This event may involve discharging some of the stored energy in your battery. Solar self-consumption will operate as usual at all other times"
This is the first one since our installation in August last year.
It will be interesting to see how it reports and how much is drawn.
2 Question for all on the forum, how many times has VPP used your battery or know about ?
and has there been as per condition of contract 5.6. You agree that a Draw Event from the national electricity
grid may appear as additional electricity consumption on Your bill under Your Electricity Sale Contract.
The reason i ask is the VPP being filled by the grid is at market rates.
Cheers
Bud,
Savings have been a little hard to calculate due to the supply charges increased and feed in decreased (24c to 16c) around the same time our original VPP was installed.
What I can say is that our total consumption decreased by about half. We had an existing 5kw Solar array and the quarterly figures are as follows. We are a full electric house.
I have not done the calculations of the decrease of solar feed in due to the PV charging the batteries.
Aug 2016 2541kWh Aug 2018 1627
Nov 2016 2100 Nov 2018 843
Feb 2017 1437 Feb 2018 743