About Lester

I'm not sure if some of the eastern states residential are only offered plans with demand charges, I have read that on some of the energy groups online, and I know AGL has stated on numerous threads they no longer apply demand tariff to new residential consumers.Why can't they just take if off those residential that are still on it ?If you can change, do so, but there might be higher tariffs for non demand plans, maybe higher daily supply charge too, but you need to do you sums based on YOUR usa ...

Ok, but who's to know if your power supplier have changed the billing for the CL recently ?I have seen this in other posts on here and social media energy groups, where suppliers have changed the CL periods as renewables have shifted cheapest power to daytime, and also kept a second CL boost in the early morning hours. You say you've noticed you are now "using extra power I haven’t before at 11am- 12 noon and overnight approx 1-3".How do you know this ?From a most recent bill info ?From looking ...

"a lot of power" is subjective, but . . . you have a HWS on CL (controlled load) ?Most CL is now put onto the solar soak hours, with renewables putting in surplus power through the day.The opposite of how it used to be in the early hours, usually after midnight until about 0600.During either, a HWS will cut on and heat to whatever is required, cut out, it might be an hour, or if much HW usage it could be 2 - 3 hours.Depending where you are though, many DNSPs, the electricity suppliers, have two ...

Not sure things would be set up that quickly, after getting solar on it seemed like a week or so while the final DNSP / AGL things happened to correlate systems. I would have thought when not under VPP control for exporting during demand times, you would be exporting at whatever pitiful FIT is offered there (here in SA it's 1c), but the VPP might also curtail your export in solar soak when there is excess grid feed in.Hopefully an AGL rep will confirm here, but may have to call them and get onto ...