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Hello Brendan, welcome to the forum.It'll be interesting to get your input here with your background with electrical and ENS Energy (??).If that is your consultancy, 18 years in the energy industry would see some great experience under your belt. As this thread has a business aspect, it's not likely many here will have your depth of knowledge. For what it's worth from my point of view owning a small manufacturing biz for 25 years, many in small business can get as much out of on site renewables ...

Ok Scott, so you have a solar system about a month old ??Has your meter been upgraded to digital, if it was still old analogue ?There are so many possibilities here, if there is an analogue meter still fitted to the home, you might be just getting it slowed and even winding back during solar production . . . not something the power co wants, as you benefit best from that . . . usually this is very short in time as a digital meter is fitted in 99.9% of solar installs.Without knowing what you've g ...

That's good idea @HLF and I'm pretty sure AGL is making inroads to have such things in their plan packages in future. The Solar Grid Savers trial is one where they are trialling curtailment of solar to the grid when such grid power excesses occur, but that only stops perfectly good energy going to the grid, a waste. Such a shame to just see that power dumped to nowhere, when it could be used at times it's needed in the grid . . . all it would take is that little extra demand a reverse Peak Ener ...

Do you have an old analogue meter ?If not on the app or web login, it usually indicates you have a digital smart meter that does not require manual reading.