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\"Red<\/p>\n

Compared to Australia, New Zealand is a mere beginner in the adoption of household solar power – while Australia had 2.68 million installations at the end of 2020 (source: CSIRO<\/a>), New Zealand had just 33,771 solar installations at the end of July 2021 (source: Electricity Authority<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Like Australia in the early days of its solar rollout, New Zealand is having to create regulatory settings for an emerging market – a notable example being the decisions surrounding metering. And that\u2019s what brought a curious difference between here and Aotearoa: how metering is applied to three-phase household connections where the solar energy is exported on one phase only.<\/p>\n

Three-Phase Trickery<\/h2>\n

Those with long memories might recall an article penned by SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock for RenewEconomy in 2015, in which he castigated the “three-phase trickery<\/a>\u201d employed by some utilities. However, it was and remains a claim made by installers that hasn\u2019t been independently verified.<\/p>\n

The claim was while most electricity retailers subtracted the household\u2019s exports from the total they were consuming across all three phases, some 3 phase meters were configured to subtract exports from imports only on the phase the solar was connected to.<\/p>\n

The difference in electricity bills between the former and the latter configuration can be substantial. Imagine using 3 kW on every phase while simultaneously generating 9 kW of solar power. A three-phase meter in the former configuration would count this as zero net consumption for billing purposes and would cost you nothing. But the latter configuration would bill it as 6 kW of exports and 6 kW of imports. With feed-in tariffs<\/a> lower than usage tariffs, you are no longer getting free power.<\/p>\n

Thankfully in Australia, this misconfiguration of 3-phase meters appears to have ended. But in New Zealand it doesn\u2019t only continue to this day – it\u2019s regulated that way, as was explained to us recently by Dustin Murdock of Red Phase Technology, a two-month-old startup.<\/p>\n

At 7c per kWh export and 30c per kWh import, it\u2019s an important issue, Murdock said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn NZ, they charge you for exporting at the same time as you\u2019re importing,\u201d he told us.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, for New Zealand two- or three-phase customers, if you want your solar to pay off, you want to maximise self-consumption.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, because Kiwis can’t rely on their 3-phase meter to net the phases, they want their consumption and production balanced across the phases.<\/p>\n

Solving The Problem<\/h2>\n

Murdock and co-founder Robert Turner have put together a straightforward solution: a device that makes sure loads and solar energy generation are equally distributed across the customer\u2019s two or three phases.<\/p>\n

The balancer is yet to be launched, so its name isn\u2019t yet settled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where the box of tricks comes in – it pulls power from each phase that has excess generation, and puts it where there\u2019s excess load, so the meter doesn\u2019t see an import\u201d, Murdock said. The box itself is simple power electronics, he added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYour solar installer could do it if they were motivated.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the extra effort involved doesn\u2019t really fit a business model focused on installing commodity products with increasingly tight margins.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love some data to confirm or contradict this, but it seems there are more multi-phase households in New Zealand as a proportion of customers than in Australia, where the default installation is single-phase.<\/p>\n

Murdock told SolarQuotes he believes two- or three-phase households could make up as much as 15% of the total.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomewhere between 10% and 20% of people get stuck with this problem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while the NZ solar market is tiny at the moment, it\u2019s likely to grow; making multi-phase metering likely to emerge as a consumer protection issue in the future.<\/p>\n

As Murdock told us:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solar industry wants the government to change the metering rules, but that\u2019s not working at the moment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is, however, another possible benefit to equalising exports and loads across multiple phases – or will potentially be, when New Zealand reaches higher solar power penetration.<\/p>\n

Application In Australia<\/h2>\n

Australia\u2019s experience is informative here: readers will be familiar with networks attributing voltage rise to excess solar exports, and the resulting regulatory action underway to try and address the issue (Ronald Brakes discussed export limits <\/a>last December).<\/p>\n

If there are a number of two- or three-phase customers on one transformer and their single-phase inverters are all configured to export only on the blue phase, they\u2019ll cause a bigger voltage rise on that phase than if the exports are balanced across phases.<\/p>\n

While he hasn\u2019t yet conducted research or marketing covering utilities, Murdock said he can imagine distributors being interested,<\/p>\n

\u201cbecause you can imagine this little device tidying up the loads on distribution networks\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Compared to Australia, New Zealand is a mere beginner in the adoption of household solar power – while Australia had 2.68 million installations at the end of 2020 (source: CSIRO), New Zealand had just 33,771 solar installations at the end of July 2021 (source: Electricity Authority).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":54359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-installation","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKiwi Startup Readies Three-Phase Power Balancer For Market<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NZ solar owners are disadvantaged by 3-phase net metering. 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