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Some retailers have Demand Tariff on top of TOU.

Basically they look at the highest single 30 minute consumption (kW) during the demand tariff period in a month multiply by number of days in month and the demand tariff price

So if in June your highest peak 30min was 10kW: 10kW x 30 x price = demand charge.

Yeah we got moved onto demand load, it applies weekdays during specific months for summer and winter. The peak usage is applied to the entire billing period, so I switched to monthly billing on the back of that. And another reason I want to run a battery - those hours as the sun is setting is usually when the oven, heater/aircon are all active and peak usage will kick in.

 

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My CL at my other place in jindabyne often come on 10pm-7am weekdays and all day weekends . Recently some parts of Essential energy would have CL on during the day as well - possibly relating to solar generation excesd

 

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My CL at my other place in jindabyne often come on 10pm-7am weekdays and all day weekends . Recently some parts of Essential energy would have CL on during the day as well - possibly relating to solar generation excesd

Here's a random day in early January when we still had the control load heating our hot water overnight. You can see the tall spikes from 10:30pm onwards, and before 6am in the morning when the tank was being heated.

Our inverter was measuring. both the normal circuit and the controlled load circuit

 

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Our inverter was measuring. both the normal circuit and the controlled load circuit

That's not difficult to do with current sensors for main meter and CL meter.

Officially; . But suggest confirm with reputable battery people.

 

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That's not difficult to do with current sensors for main meter and CL meter.

Officially; . But suggest confirm with reputable battery people.
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Ahh that's odd, I'm not sure why it wouldn't be possible. But then I'm not an expert in such.

But we definitely have two Smart meters:

• EDMI Atlas Mk10Ad for the three phase
• EDMI Atlas Mk7a for the controlled load.