ESB Peak Events notification

Have you a link to it?

I'm a bit tired, maybe that explains why I can't make sense of those figures?

I presume you have a 12kVA connection like most people, so you can draw a max of about 15kW continuously? With a night rate of 12c on Flogas, it doesn't really make sense to export it as your losses would eat most of your profit. But with the 5c night rage of Pinergy, it makes a lot of sense to draw 45kWh every single night of the year, provided you have a big enough battery, which I believe you do. Did you take that into account? I believe you don't heat your home or your water with electricity but with oil? How many miles do you drive per year total of all your EVs?

How many kWh per year do you use yourself, how many kWh per year do you produce in PV? What percentage of the units you use yourself can not be bought in a 3 hour time slot?

The problem is, there isnt enough time to import anything extra. I'm looking at my smart meter data and even now in the summer every night since it's installed has had 2-3 hours at least of 12-15kW (we get varying voltages here, sometimes 12kW at 209v is the max). If I'm already doing that, I have no headroom to import additional energy and get paid for it.
The money is there to be made. I see it and have done the sums. I saw your bill/credit, I know it.

Maybe if I got a 16kva upgrade or something. But I'm literally set up in such a way that there's 60+ amps being drawn for hours most nights.

Take this week as representative for instance. Monday I was in Clonmel, model 3 the only one to make that trip comfortably. So, took the 3, arrived back with around 30%. Plugged in and charged overnight for about 6 hours to full. Tuesday I'm up in Dublin. Returned with 22%. Plugged in and charged overnight for about 6.5-7 hours to full. Wednesday (today) the mrs has to go to an appointment in meath. Normally she drives the Ora but takes the tesla if the ora has not enough range. Thursday I'm in the office and the mrs has kids trip duties. So I'll take the Ora to work and she'll take the Tesla, more room for stuff in the boot.

That's 1 EV charging for 6+ hours Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday night and 2 on Thursday night. I havent even mentioned my usual weekend errands or topped up the leaf for doing local trips etc. I think this may be an urban rural divide or something. Anytime I need to go anywhere its a 20-30km round trip (Leaf!).

If I'm already drawing 7kW (or 10kW) to charge the leaf and the balance going to top up the house battery and cover appliances at night, how do I charge everything in 3 hours and also bring in the electricity to make a profit? I feel like I need more POOWAAAA

Yes if you do a very high mileage between the EVs, the 3 hour slot simply isn't enough. For a while I thought your miles had died down somewhat, but looks like you're back in high mile territory?

A simple sum is that if you can only use one car charger every night for 3 hours, you will only get 20kWh into the cars per night, which at say 16kWh / 100km will only give a total annual mileage of a bit over 45k km per year (or the average of about 3 cars in Ireland). If you do say well over 60k km per year in total excluding any charging not done at home (do you really?) then the 3 hour slot simply isn't enough, even with the supercheap pinergy rate

We get texts and emails. Always fill out the surveys. Nothing in return.

Same here, also got 4 * €30 in the early days but nothing since

My total electricity bill for the year is now so much negative, that it pays for my gas bill too 😁

Same here, award #5 😁

that was the payout to end of June. 2 events in June, unless the 2nd was only recorded in July

posted this on the bargain alerts thread but might be of interest to some here too.

esbn site has been updated, a lot more useful now with the way you can view your data. hour/day, week, month, year. split by day/night/peak. can download different versions of hdf now too

about time but it looks impressive on first viewing