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Nice, if you dont mind me asking, was it a big job and any indicator of costs would be helpful. Ta

Hi, thanks for the info, so it seems the controlled load (tarrif 31?) circuit and timings is controlled by AGL (or the provider). Seems I need to get an electrician to get my hot water off that circuit and maybe put in some sort of timer so I can control when it draws power. Might save me $400 a year by just doing that?

Hi, Noticed that my draw from the grid started going up at 12:30pm every day and that the usage at 12:30am went down to nothing, it used to be that the hot water system on Tariff 31 controlled load would start at 12:30am but now it seems to start at 12:30pm.Also noticed that the rates for Tariff 31 controlled load have increased to $0.2558, higher than the general usage charges. Seems that it is straight from the grid as well and I can't use my excess solar generation in the middle of the day to ...

I was on a 12c all day fit and in February I got an email "Your new electricity plan is about to start, mid April". Looking back the notification it had a new rate of 10c for the first 14kw and 5c thereafter, which at the time I didn't read properly. Anyway, the April bill showed the change to 10c etc but my assumption was that I would be getting what I saw on the web site and elsewhere of 12c for the first 14kw etc. Then the online chat just confused me more, the only response I was able to ge ...