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Update 24th Feb 2025:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 I mistakenly wrote that the Globird Zerohero VPP allows a household to use up to 0.3kWh of grid electricity during the two hour Zerohero peak and still receive a $1 credit.\u00a0 But the actual figure GloBird gives is 0.03kWh per hour.\u00a0 This makes for a total of 0.06kWh over the two hour period.\u00a0 This figure is low and has the potential to make it difficult for battery households to claim the $1 credit because it’s normal for battery households to still draw a small amount of power from the grid even if they never exceed their battery’s continuous power output.\u00a0 I called GloBird but wasn’t able to talk to anyone who knew details about the VPP.\u00a0 I have sent them an email and, hopefully, they will respond to it.\u00a0 Until I get clarification from Glowbird, I can’t recommend using their Zerohero VPP as it may be difficult for households to take advantage of one of its major benefits.<\/em><\/p>\n

Update 3rd March 2025:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 GloBird have responded and said, for the batteries they have tested, households are able to get through the two hour Zerohero evening peak without exceeding the 0.03kWh per hour grid electricity consumption limit, so are able to receive the $1 credit. \u00a0 They also sent some bill information on four households showing this.\u00a0 However, this information was all from summer when small amounts of solar generation during the peak period could have helped the households avoid the 0.03kWh per hour limit.\u00a0 Until we receive information showing homes can receive the $1 Zerohero credit outside of summer, I recommend assuming you won’t get it any time your solar system isn’t producing a small amount of energy during the second half of the Zerohero evening peak.\u00a0 I have placed the bill information at the end of the post.
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I’ve looked into the pros and cons of a range of Virtual Power Plants<\/a>, and so far, I haven’t been impressed.\u00a0 But GloBird Energy’s Zerohero VPP stands out as the best of a bad bunch.\u00a0 Rather than providing inadequately meagre payments — so long as you have a suitable battery and electricity consumption patterns — its payments have the potential to be adequately meagre.<\/p>\n

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Another advantage is you’re always in charge of discharging the battery to the grid.\u00a0 Globird will never drain your battery without permission.\u00a0 This is important because one thing widely disliked about VPPs is having to hand over control of the battery you paid for to a faceless organisation — or worse — one with Elon Musk’s face.<\/p>\n

The GloBird Zerohero VPP can be particularly useful for homes with smaller solar systems because it provides three hours of free electricity in the middle of the day and this can be used to charge your battery.\u00a0 But because its solar feed-in tariff isn’t great, it may not suit homes with large solar systems that normally export a lot during the day.<\/p>\n

I’ll give details below, but you can go to GloBird’s Zerohero page<\/a> and also check out its terms and conditions<\/a> if you’d like information straight from the horse’s esophagus.\u00a0 Because it compares well to the competition — take a look at our recently updated VPP comparison table<\/a> to check for yourself — if you’re looking to join a VPP you may want to give Globird Zerohero a go, provided it’s available in your area.<\/p>\n

How To Join<\/h2>\n

The Globird Zerohero VPP is available in NSW, SA, SE QLD’s Energex area, and VIC.\u00a0 That’s potentially 21.5 million Australians out of 27 million, which isn’t bad.<\/p>\n

If you’re a renter, you can join the VPP, but your home will need a suitable solar and battery system.<\/p>\n

To join Zerohero you will need:<\/p>\n