Amber Electric
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My advice to customers...
Here's some advice for anyone connecting to Amber. Buy prices seem to be typically lower as an average than other suppliers. The price can go down to 0 cents at times (even negative!) during the middle of the day when you're out working or kids at school. Lowest seems to be from 10:30am to 2:30pm. But when you get home, prices can go up to 40, 50, 60 cents easily (and sometimes even spike to a few dollars). However the "average" ends up lower (maybe 30 to 35 cents). So programming your washing machine and dishwasher to this time slot is a must. Feed out solar makes you a little money when there's not much solar around. However, when you have excess (probably 10am to 2pm) in most cases cost you money as there are alot of other users giving solar to the grid. So cost can be 0, -1, -5 even -10 cents. Suggestion: 1. Minimize how much power you use from 7am to 10am 2. Minimize how much power you use from 2:30pm to 8:30pm 3. Program your dishwasher and washing machine to run between 10:30am and 2:30pm 4. As soon as you can afford it, get solar panels as well as at least a 10Kwh batter. Have your sparky give you and set up a system which will store your solar power during the day (10am to 2pm - when you typically pay to put the excess power from your solar panels back into the grid). Have the sparky also setup your system so that the battery feeds back say 80 to 80% of your stored power back to the grid either 7am to 9am or 3pm to 8pm, when the money you get for your solar goes to double digits (10c, 20c, even 30c). That's my 2 bits worth.