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Maverick electricity retailer Amber Electric can automatically switch on your appliances when wholesale electricity prices are low or negative.<\/p><\/div>\n

Years ago when people first started talking about exposing consumers to the wholesale electricity price, I thought it was a bad idea as I felt most households weren\u2019t up to the challenge of managing the risk of price spikes. <\/span>So it was a happy experience for me to chat to<\/span>\u00a0Amber Electric co-founder and co-CEO Dan Adams, and hear that Amber\u2019s solution to this is a guarantee their customers will save money over the course of a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since I spend more time looking at technology than the retail market, I\u2019m late to Amber Electric<\/a>, but Dan and I were talking through the company\u2019s SmartShift service, currently in beta in Adelaide.<\/span><\/p>\n

For others who are in the position I was until Friday, Amber Electric ignores the traditional retailer model – buying electricity at the wholesale price, and buying financial hedges that let them turn the variable price into a fixed price for the householder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Amber Electric doesn\u2019t \u201cbuy electricity\u201d at all – the customer buys their power from Energy Locals – and what Amber does is expose the real time wholesale price to the customer, so they can shift their usage to cheaper times.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s currently no financial reason for customers to manage their usage according to the wholesale price, because you\u2019re paying 35c per kWh (or whatever) no matter the upstream price (with the exception of the blunt instrument of off-peak water heating).<\/span><\/p>\n

As an Amber customer, you watch the app on your phone and when the wholesale price falls, you power up the pool pump, aircon, water heater or the EV charger<\/a>. And if the price is rising, you cut your usage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as the wholesale electricity price, the company\u2019s app shows users the real-time percentage of renewables in the grid, and a renewables forecast over the next 12 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Dan told us, that model assumes a very engaged customer – and that\u2019s what SmartShift is about.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur customers now are very engaged,\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

he said, but for the Amber model to take off, it needs automation.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the South Australian beta, Amber Electric is: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201coptimising household batteries, hot water services, and pool pumps to use electricity when it\u2019s getting cheaper; and to export power to the grid when the price is higher.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With just hot water services and pool pumps under management, Amber believes it can save customers $150 to $200 over 12 months. When batteries are integrated into SmartShift, the company expects savings to increase by another $200 to $400 a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Get Ready For Automation<\/h2>\n

Amber Electric\u2019s contribution is of course the computing infrastructure (including cloud-to-cloud integration between Amber and South Australian partner SolarEd<\/a>ge) that supports the app and provides the renewables forecasts to customers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe objective of our algorithm is to minimise electricity costs, and maximise export price,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a fixed subscription fee of $10 \/ month, so our incentive is to have customers save as much as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A partnership with<\/span>\u00a0Ohmie<\/a> provides the smart switches and smart plugs needed to control loads. <\/span>Customers signing up to the Adelaide trial don\u2019t need to buy the smart switches.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an $800k grant from the SA Government so there\u2019s no cost to the customer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe pool pump needs to run a set number of hours a day, so we set it to run at the cheapest times. And it makes sense to heat up hot water during the cheapest two hours of the night, using excess wind when wholesale prices are cheap.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SmartShift is already integrated with SolarEdge battery customers using<\/span>\u00a0LG Chem<\/a> batteries, with Tesla Powerwall<\/a> next.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just about to finish our integration with Tesla to make Powerwall 2* part of SmartShift\u201d, Dan said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Batteries are already compatible with VPP operations, and don\u2019t need additional hardware or software. The next target for integration will be electric vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n

*Update:<\/strong> An earlier version of this story included the first-version Powerwall on the integration list in error. Only Powerwall 2 batteries will be integrated with SmartShift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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