I'm considering switching from the standard Octopus tarriff to Flex. I have a GivEnergy system with a single 5kWh battery - but I'm not sure I can trust my family to remember to try to minimise useage during the peak cost 16:00 - 19:00 period.
My hypothesis then - aimed more at minimising any import during that period, rather than maximising export, is:
Set up my system to force import to fill the battery in the 'flux' period of 02:00 - 05:00, and to fill it again in the 15:00 - 16:00 hour each day, to try to make sure it's full before peak time starts. If it then exports any, all the better - but it should make it unlikely that we need to import.
First question for those in the know is:
Does this sound like a good compromise to using the flux tariff without having to be crazy strict with my family? I reckon this way I'll get good use out of the low cost overnight period, and will likely take advantage of the slightly higher export price during the day too. And if it's still sunny between 16:00 and 19:00, might even get some of the higher export price.
And second question is:
Can I set up this plan through the GivEnergy dashboard? I'm not very practiced at the more in depth settings. But I found the timed charge setting, but could only seem to set up one time of the day to force it to charge from the grid - I need two!
Cheers for any advice!
My hypothesis then - aimed more at minimising any import during that period, rather than maximising export, is:
Set up my system to force import to fill the battery in the 'flux' period of 02:00 - 05:00, and to fill it again in the 15:00 - 16:00 hour each day, to try to make sure it's full before peak time starts. If it then exports any, all the better - but it should make it unlikely that we need to import.
First question for those in the know is:
Does this sound like a good compromise to using the flux tariff without having to be crazy strict with my family? I reckon this way I'll get good use out of the low cost overnight period, and will likely take advantage of the slightly higher export price during the day too. And if it's still sunny between 16:00 and 19:00, might even get some of the higher export price.
And second question is:
Can I set up this plan through the GivEnergy dashboard? I'm not very practiced at the more in depth settings. But I found the timed charge setting, but could only seem to set up one time of the day to force it to charge from the grid - I need two!
Cheers for any advice!
