Hey everyone!
We’ve just changed electricity providers here in Brisbane and their tariffs are pretty cool. We have an EV charging tariff between 12am and 6am, but we also have a 3-hour period of free power between 11am and 2pm every day. I’ve set up the charging schedule to charge between 12am and 6am however I would love to be able to utilise the free power period during the day on top of the solar diversion. Is it possible to either: 1) Create a second charging schedule in the app or 2) Tell the charger to charge from the grid during the free power period?
Our next major piece of work is around extending some of the scheduling capabilities of the charger, and this is one of the capabilities that we want to be able to support. Out of interest, who is your new provider? We like to dive into the tariff offerings of as many retailers as possible to make sure we’re covering all the bases (this has crossover with the electricity pricing setup too).
In terms of timing, there is still quite a way to go so I don’t have any definitive date for you just yet, but I’d expect it to be in the next couple of months.
Hi Tom, That’s great news! Looking forward to the rollout when it’s ready.
We’ve changed to Ovo and their EV plan. [(The EV Plan — OVO Energy)](https:// [The EV Plan — OVO Energy]) It’s proving to be quite a decent plan, We’re loving it.
Please advise if your charger time is sync to a internet time server?
I am looking into installing a 22kw 3 phase EV charger in the next few months. Please advise when the ability to use free electricity (11am-2pm) feature will be available?
As a suggestion:
add to your advance Solar Diversion settings A start maximum power charging time and stop maximum charging time when free power is available. A second start maximum charging time and stop time during lower night rate if battery is not full.
a “start maximum charge button” with a setting for duration for a top up charge for use during higher tariff time when battery is a bit low and one want to use the car soon.
This is assuming that the charger will not switch off when no solar input. e.g. switch on charging at time other than free electricity period and charger on standby when no solar input at night.
I think the above will suit most users as it is suitable for one:
with solar panels with or without battery (when having battery can set second time schedule to start later in the night or early morning to minimise battery usages)
Yes the charger checks its time against our server each day, and that server in turn is synced to an internet time server.
You can already create a schedule which will charge during a free period such as 11am-2pm, and the team are currently about half way through an improved pricing and scheduling capability which will enable more choices (such as multiple charging times per day, different schedules on different days of the week etc.)
It will be possible to have periods of the day when grid charging is allowed (i.e. go at full speed), periods when solar charging is allowed (i.e. go at the speed of your excess power), and periods when no charging is allowed (i.e. no charging even though there is power being exported, such as when you want to earn money from high feed-in tariffs).