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Amber is the best wholesale electricity provider for those with batteries..
Amber is the best wholesale electricity provider for those with a battery. Solar rebates are near useless now and therefore making the return on investment from solar panels much longer. A way to improve that is to have more solar production and battery power than you need and then sell the extra in the early evening when prices are high. The Amber app can do all the work for you or you can manually control it to see if you can do better than the Smart Software. Don't forget that you also getting free electricity after your return on investment period (getting back what you paid for the solar and batteries for anybody that doesn't know what ROI is). I have 16kW solar panels and 2 x Tesla 3 batteries (27kWh) and in my first month I earned $53.56 as I was getting use to working the timing of feed-in and avoiding negative feed-ins. My second month was $104.55 earnt. These are after all Amber cost and fees were taken out so that's completely free electricity plus $158.11 in my pocket. By the way, the Tesla company may have problems at the moment and they do like to limit the battery automation a bit but they are still very high-quality batteries plus they are very compact if space is an issue (which was my problem and why I went Tesla in the end). There are other very good options out there if you have more wall space but the important thing is to make sure that the batteries are already supported by Amber. Remember that electricity prices will just continue to go up so what I earn will also continue to go up so ROI is faster than just multiplying out todays figures. My batteries filled up very quick in summer and are still filling up before the end of even cloudy days so I could have gone a little less on the panels or got 3 batteries, finding the sweet spot will shorten your ROI period. I went with extra so I could run Air-Con/Heating and add things to my house without worrying about running out of free electricity. Also, it's better to put extra solar panels on than not enough as it cost more to add them later.