Is there any reason left not to go smart meter?

You charge your battery during the day from the grid?

The €100 welcome bonus will cover your shortfall for about 30 days. So pretty much the vast majority if not all of the days in the year that you are short. And of course you are enjoying the other 99.5% of your units at 5c, which is nearly 40% cheaper than the nearest competitor

So cheer up, DrPhil! 😀

Indeed. I was noticing that at this time of year the battery that was charged in the morning was depleted mostly by peak time. So we were importing many units at peak rate. Since I started charging between 16-17, we have used none at peak rates. If the battery is full at 16 hrs, then we use day rates from the grid during that hour.

@DrPhilG - "Just stings to see this:"

Yeah, it stings. I've been lucky enough to just about escape it so far, but I had to make an additional battery charger last weekend, which has saved my beef this week, putting in an additional 3.3kWh into the battery every night. Would have run out without it. So not stung yet 😀

Dumb Q. So you somehow connect that new charger along with the battery inverter to get a higher battery charge rate? Meaning you get around the battery inverter charge limit. That right?

Q2, what's the limit the batteries can take charge wise? Or what other charge bottlenecks are there like the bms?

I'll be doing a DIY battery at some point. Well, will be a Seplos kit and EVE batteries most likely.

Is there a waiting period before you can switch suppliers after getting a smart meter? I got one last week, I can see smart meter data on the esb network site.

Does that mean I'm good to go switch onto a smart plan? Looking at the pinergy ev plan as my battery should cover 90+% of my daily use.

Thanks.

Once the new supplier can see you have a smart Meter from their systems access to ESBN, you're good to go.

They have no idea as to whether you had the smart Meter for 10 min, or 10 months, not do they care

Some sort of fluke for @unkel it seems.

Pinergy have said they can't do anything as long as this shows up for your mprn when you try to sign up online:

They said it can take anywhere between 1 and 2 months for the damn meter to be detected, ESBN confirmed the same and after talking to multiple reps, no one can do anything about it. Basically it means nothing that you can see your usage on the EBN portal, go figure.

Yeah I was getting that message and was on to Pinergy a few times to try sort it. Eventually requested Reagan as suggested by someone on this thread and it was sorted the next day. Took 37 days I think from smart meter installation to when I was able to sign up. On a similar note how long did it take for people's data to start showing up in the Pinergy app?

It took bl00dy ages, even though it was on ESBN. Of course, you can guess who finally sorted that out too !!!

Yes, and got it paid into my account

Pinergy FTW 😁 Everyday's just the same...

No limit! And yes, I use over 42kWh of 5c electricity per day, every day. 3 hours times over 14kW. If I don't need it, I dump it back into the grid (pay 5c, get paid 27c). Not an awful lot of that in December or January, but plenty in other months.

Also no limit for feed in tariff units.