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Lester Powerhouse
Wednesday

Re: solar and a battery question

Hi Fogger . . . Joining AGL, joining a VPP, joining battery rewards ? Joining AGL ?I have found here in SA, there is little difference with retailers for people without solar and for people with solar only.Some offer lower tariffs but higher daily supply charges, and vice versa. People with a battery have a lot more choice of offers from different retailers (or even whole models like Amber) as there are so many variances of FITs avaliable during evening peak, some offereing up to 35c or so for 3 ...
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Lester Powerhouse
Wednesday

Re: usage nd billing

Your usage amount doesn't include daily supply charge (DSC).Work out the number of days to date on the usage bars, multiply by your DSC, and add that to usage, should match the 'cost to date' amount.
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Lester Powerhouse
a week ago

Re: The way you sign in to your account is changing!

I'll refer to it as logging into the website account . . . not using the phone app in general apart from sending workshop readings in occasionally.I can go through the regular login, but now requires the code sent to phone, so instead of just having my pasword in the system and logging in with 2 mouse clicks, I have to either :Go through using my phone as well, getting either an sms code and then put that in, it involves 3 or 4 extra steps, some using keyboard, and getting phone out.Or, use a pa ...
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Lester Powerhouse
a week ago

Re: Is it fraud? New Controlled Load using your solar

"Personally, I'll be getting my hot water moved over to the main circuit and getting the controlled load option removed from my account." Sure, but you have to get that breaker with a timer on it, so you can be in control of when it comes on.The Hager we had fitted. We still have it set for 0100 - 0500, so we are an hour each side within our very cheap 8c tariff midnight to 0600 (just in case DST mucks it about, or the EST that is the base times for NEM I think).It's like 30c or so a night avg, ...
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