Getting the most from your battery
The battery works in the background and supports your home, and you can use power as normal.
The battery works in the background and supports your home, and you can use power as normal.
The power you’ve used at your two rates, the daily charge, and your share of what the battery earned as its own credit.
See what your home is drawing now, and what it drew across the day, hour by hour.
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You do not need to change how you live. If you want your share to go further, move the big draws out of the early evening so the battery has more to sell. In a power cut we text you, and keeping the dryer, the oven and heaters off keeps your lights on for longer.
The heaviest movable load in most houses. A load that starts at nine instead of six leaves the battery more to sell.
Most machines made in the last decade have a delay timer.
If you have one, the charger is a controlled load on its own circuit, like your hot water, so it never draws on the battery.
Bringing rooms up to temperature before five, rather than heating hard through the expensive evening hours, uses the same power at a better hour.
Cook when you want to.
It steps up in year four and again from year five.
In many cases existing panels and the battery work together. You do not need solar to join.
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