u/pl0pp3r

What difference 24 hours makes…

What difference 24 hours makes…

What does everybody’s first day of the price rise look like? We’ve gone from credit to this! We’ve only been with GloBird for less than 2 months - guess it’s time to shop around again….

u/pl0pp3r — 4 days ago

Globird increase & usage

Hey all! We’ve had our set up for about 7 weeks and have got into an ok pattern.
System: 15kw solar
25kw inverter
40kw Sigenergy batteries
Charge EV & batteries at “free o’clock” as we call it.
We are in Brisbane and with GloBird - zero hero plan and it’s been pretty good, but each day there has been usage, not a lot but usually around $0.30 a day. This does my head in! Is this a system thing? Is it a GloBird thing? Is rookie user error thing? I have my mode set to GloBirds VPP scheduling, so I under the impression I’m doing it right, I just don’t want to use any grid power unless it’s “free o’clock”.
I export set to 1.7kw so as I have enough storage each morning, and with all this rain and cloud I generally need it as there’s not a lot of solar being produced.
So to cut an awfully long story short I have 2 questions:

  1. How do I stop this unwanted usage (if I change the VPP status do I “loose” the zero hero benefits)?
  2. With the July 1 increase will the plan be worth it? If not where is everyone going to?
u/pl0pp3r — 13 days ago