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I have the battery set as a priority to discharge before grid during peak import times. Yet the battery is only discharging at 0.2kw, yet the importing from the grid is at 1.5kw.

Have played with some settings but nothing changed, set them back to default.

Just wondering if anyone know where this limiting setting could be?

I'm looking at moving to ECOWholesale, but trying to get any information out of Ecotricity is like blood out of a stone.

They're telling me there is no cost over and above the spot price, apart from the usual daily fixed and network charges.

Can anyone on the plan verify this is correct? Seems too good to be true.

We have a 7 year old house with a 4.15kw PV system, no battery. Someone usually home during the day. We're trying to work out if it makes sense to stop having piped gas as the double daily charges are a pain and we know we're not making the most out of our solar, but we enjoy some aspects of our gas appliances. Have other people made the jump with similar barriers? Any advice?

Our piped gas is used for the stove top, infinity water heater and a double-sided fireplace. 

We have heatpumps in the house for the bulk of our heating, but we do turn the gas fire on occasionally in winter because it's nice and we're paying the gas daily charge anyway. The double-sided fireplace really made us fall in love with our home. It's in a open plan area and gives it a nice ambiance. I haven't been able to find double sided electric alternatives, so I'm thinking we could just cut the gas and leave the unit in the medium term, or install a single sided electric one bit it would lose some of its appeal.

We love to cook and enjoy some aspects of gas cooking (specifically using our wok a lot and some non-induction friendly cookware). We appreciate that induction has benefits too, such as speed of boiling and much easier to clean up the stove. There's a neither-here-nor-there idea that we could get a hybrid stovetop which uses LPG bottles (bottles owned rather than rented) for one burner and induction on the other burners.

I suspect we'd be able to get an electric hot water system outside where the infinity system is and be able to put a lot of our currently exported solar power into that. I think it's slightly undersized for the house but it's not a big problem for us.

Any advice? We've worked out it'd cost a lot to convert everything to electric, especially the fireplace. And it will pay itself off eventually but by my very rough calculations it was over 10 years. The appliances are still working fine so not needing replacing yet in that respect. I've joked it'd be easier to get some more solar panels and a battery and cut off from the electricity grid instead!

To effectively use a genesis power shout - 1 hour free power scheduled

Is the best way to use Sigenergy “instant manual control” and set it to charge for that hour.

Any other house usage will come from grid? - and Solar if there is any?

Or is there a better way

Getting solar installed through Harrisons and was wondering peoples thoughts on the preference as aiko are about 120 more expensive per panel. Is it worth it as big purchase and dont want to regret it either way

Apologies for creating another one of these - I tried some codes from previous threads but got various errors - the latest being “You have already participated in this activity”.

The message above makes it seem like a referral has already been applied but I don’t see it reflected anywhere in the app (notifications, rewards) or the website and got not confirmation error or email, so I’m very confused…

I’m still within the 7 day window and have eligible gear installed. Waiting to hear back from my installer. My system is online but hasn’t been signed off by the inspector yet if that makes a difference - I do remember some commissioning wording in the SIgen terms.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

On another note someone else mentioned a ChoiceCheapies referral system with random codes or having the mods in a thread for referral codes, I think that’d be a good idea.

Looking forward to another day of paying significantly less for power. ☀️⚡️

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Edit:

I reached out to my installer and he referred me to the Sigenergy helpline (+61 489 080 832). They couldn’t figure it out over the phone but got me to raise a support ticket for another team to look into. 🤞

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Edit 2:

I got this resolved by Sigenergy support today. Initially they thought I was trying to use my own referral code. 🙃 They had to send it off to their R&D team as tier 1 support couldn’t tell me if a code had been applied or not… Seems like one of the earlier codes got applied. 🎉

Thanks to all for your help.

Hey, we are getting solar in about 2 months, now we need to look at which provider we go with

Will be using approx 7200 kwh per year and estimated to generate about 10000 kwh per year

Will have a 10 KW battery and inverter

Who are people with and why

Hamilton based as well, thanks