20-08-2024, 12:50 PM
Definitely major problems with NZ's electricity supply system. This report on the RNZ news today provides more evidence.
Personally I find the Powerswitch site pretty much worthless in its current form. As the owners of 2 EVs and a sizeable solar setup the PS site doesn't cater for either variable in its functionality. For us our total import from the grid in 12 months has been just under $1,000 with $3,200 of 'earnings' from export and self consumption of our own power. For this reason Powerswitch's lack of Feed in Tariff integration in its functionality makes it of little use to us, together with its consumption parameters not including EV charging.
In the wider perspective the potential ramping up of electricity prices will act as an effective incentive for adoption of solar, and if things continue to worsen a reason to invest further in home batteries sufficient to cut links with the grid altogether. We currently don't have a battery in our system but instead divert to HWC and EV charging quite effectively. One of our EVs has bidirectional charging capability which presents the possibility of it serving as a home power source by way of a compatible charging unit but with that technology yet to gain traction in NZ as yet that's a waiting game for us.
Personally I find the Powerswitch site pretty much worthless in its current form. As the owners of 2 EVs and a sizeable solar setup the PS site doesn't cater for either variable in its functionality. For us our total import from the grid in 12 months has been just under $1,000 with $3,200 of 'earnings' from export and self consumption of our own power. For this reason Powerswitch's lack of Feed in Tariff integration in its functionality makes it of little use to us, together with its consumption parameters not including EV charging.
In the wider perspective the potential ramping up of electricity prices will act as an effective incentive for adoption of solar, and if things continue to worsen a reason to invest further in home batteries sufficient to cut links with the grid altogether. We currently don't have a battery in our system but instead divert to HWC and EV charging quite effectively. One of our EVs has bidirectional charging capability which presents the possibility of it serving as a home power source by way of a compatible charging unit but with that technology yet to gain traction in NZ as yet that's a waiting game for us.