Smart Meters are smart.
For instance if you have excess solar generation,it will flow through the Export side of the meter, if you do not have enough generation, power from the grid flows through the import side of the meter.
When installing Solar the only connection you need to make is to connect the Solar output to the main circuit board.
The only reason they connected to the shed was that there was no room to add another circuit into the board and used the shed circuit to get the power BACK to the main board. The shed should have been wired with heavier wiring anyway.
So in your case the Solar Circuit Breaker will be located in your Shed and the Main Solar AC Solar Switch on the wall next to the inverter.
In the Main Supply Board (Meter Box), there should be an tag indicating that Solar Circuit Breaker is located in the Shed Sub Board and that the Solar AC Switch located next to the inverter.
The instruction for your Solar should indicate that to isolate the solar you need to :
- Turn off the Main AC Supply Switch.
- Turn off the DC Supply Switches
To turn back on, reverse the the process, DC On, Main AC back on.
Once again I will iterate that it is possible to EXPORT and IMPORT, you can never do this at the SAME time (your time is in milliseconds) but remember your INTERVAL METER (Smart Switch) supplies readings at intervals (30, 15 or 5 min are common).
In 30 min intervals you will see it more often than 15 or 5, but it will occur.
You can see above when I was exporting / exporting on the 29th July 2023.
The 5min interval readings are supplied to me by SA Power Networks
The 30min readings are supplied from My Account at AGL.
I deliberately picked this day as it was clearly overcast as I generally don't import any power from 08:00 till 17:00 on most days, but then we only consume round 5kWh a day any way. The higher you usage the more chance you will get of using all of your solar.
Above is Screen Report for running my program to convert the AGL data into a NEM 12 format file. My data from SA Power Networks is supplied in NEM 12 format.
Note that I also only use meter readings based on my consumption for the Bill, I gave up actually reading my meter, a long time ago as it has been reset many times.
You will also need to note that the New Look AGL Bill DOES NOT CONTAIN meter readings, ONLY YOUR CONSUMPTION for the billing period.
Above is the results so far for my current billing cycle (in my Plan Schedule), you can see why power is cheaper in Shoulder Rate... My HIGH usage (3%) of shoulder power is because I heat my hot water during this period...
And here is my projected bill, I pay $22.50 every fortnight, so I don't get billshock.
