New Octopus tariff for solar and battery users - Octopus Flux

Ron-ski

Remember that the car also needs to support V2H, it's not all about the charger.

scubajoe

Ron-ski said:

Remember that the car also needs to support V2H, it's not all about the charger.

From what I've read it appears that you are correct in relation to AC chargers where on board hardware is required in the vehicle but DC chargers such as the device in development with Solaredge only require a software implementation. It still needs the vehicle to support it

pensionpawn

...and then there's this. However once bitten, twice shy with French cars! https://www.electrive.com/2023/06/13/renault-introduces-bidirectional-charging-with-the-renault-5/

pensionpawn

Everyone has different lifestyles, wallets, views on green policies / RoI etc and so VTH will not suit everyone. However if you are a 2+ car family then the EV could stay at home when necessary or if you are retired the EV will mainly be wherever you are. The SolarEdge (which is fortunately my system) discharge rate is also in excess of any domestic battery that I've investigated so far meaning that you could throw on the induction hob, electric oven, kettle and microwave on Christmas morning without importing  and the battery size would keep you going until the next cheap rate night period. Yes, an EV is much more expensive than a stand alone battery however I will need a new car in the not so distant future, which cannot be said for a domestic battery. The only feature missing (?) for me is "island mode" that can be found on a Powerwall 2 via the Home Gateway. Hopefully that will be integrated soon or becomes available as a stand alone feature. 

scubajoe

pensionpawn said:

Everyone has different lifestyles, wallets, views on green policies / RoI etc and so VTH will not suit everyone. However if you are a 2+ car family then the EV could stay at home when necessary or if you are retired the EV will mainly be wherever you are. The SolarEdge (which is fortunately my system) discharge rate is also in excess of any domestic battery that I've investigated so far meaning that you could throw on the induction hob, electric oven, kettle and microwave on Christmas morning without importing  and the battery size would keep you going until the next cheap rate night period. Yes, an EV is much more expensive than a stand alone battery however I will need a new car in the not so distant future, which cannot be said for a domestic battery. The only feature missing (?) for me is "island mode" that can be found on a Powerwall 2 via the Home Gateway. Hopefully that will be integrated soon or becomes available as a stand alone feature. 

The discharge rate of SolarEdge Home Battery is 5kW per battery.

Re the "island mode" it's already there and due for release very soon. SolarEdge Home Backup - Blackout Protection | SolarEdge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ0mLmJH3tw 

scubajoe

se-home-fundamental-brochure-installers-row.pdf (solaredge.com)

scubajoe

I thought I already posted this but it didn't appear???
Anyway, for anyone who already has a SolarEdge system with battery you can now manage TOU periods directly from the mySolarEdge App

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nk6bj1VxEE&t=2s

RealtimeBlues

The SE battery management app is useless.  More work needed !!! check the FB page for Solaredge installers/users, lots of complaints the app not working or able to go back to installer settings as its frozen. It needs to be the same user access capability as that of an installer. And the full access ability on the desktop/laptop internet site. After all we are the owners and what's the point of changing tariffs etc if we cant access simple TOU commands.

jneill

[Deleted User] said:

New Flux prices are out. Email just received. Peak export down from 37.6p/kWh to 32.53p/kWh

I have the new South East (KT19) import rates, but Octopus won't tell me the export rate (via DM on Twitter).

Does anyone have the exports?

Octopus Flux - import rates from 1st July 2023

Day : 30.90p/kWh
Flux : 18.54p/kWh
Peak: 43.26p/kWh
Standing charge: 45.57p

DougMLancs

They’ll go live on the website tomorrow I should think. These are my new rates, I can’t see the proportion being very different in the SE