{"id":94097,"date":"2026-11-11T05:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=94097"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:55:28","slug":"mission-impossible-good-vpp-for-my-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/mission-impossible-good-vpp-for-my-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Impossible: Finding A Good VPP For My Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/best-vpp-sister-1.jpg\" alt=\"A home in the bush with solar\" width=\"1081\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/best-vpp-sister-1.jpg 1081w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/best-vpp-sister-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/best-vpp-sister-1-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/best-vpp-sister-1-768x406.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1081px) 100vw, 1081px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, out of the goodness of my heart &#8212; along with a fervent desire for that heart to remain within my chest &#8212;\u00a0 I worked out what battery size my sister should buy for her home in rural NSW. Now I&#8217;ve been told I have to decide which VPP she should join. For my part, I intend to give it my all, in the hope that when I&#8217;m done, I&#8217;ll still have all my parts.<br \/>\n<!--more-->My job is to find the best available VPP suitable for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A battery charged daily during periods of free electricity.<\/li>\n<li>Set-and-forget use, meaning my sister can relax on her throne of skulls and reap VPP benefits without having to do anything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While my sister lives beyond a NSW black stump, she has nearly the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/virtual-power-plants\/\">Virtual Power Plant<\/a> choice as in Sydney and Newcastle. So this post could be useful to anyone in NSW, or potentially anywhere else, looking to join one.<\/p>\n<h2>My Sister&#8217;s Battery<\/h2>\n<p>In my previous battery sizing posts, I recommended my sister buy a 28 kWh battery, or around 32 kWh if she decides she wants to set a battery reserve for reliable backup power. I also decided this battery should be topped up daily with free grid electricity from a Solar Sharer or similar plan. This significantly improves the battery&#8217;s return, because my sister&#8217;s modest 6.6 kW solar system doesn&#8217;t come close to keeping up with her winter electricity consumption.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about how I arrived at my battery size recommendation here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sizing-sisters-battery-free-daytime-electricity\/\">Part 1:\u00a0 Sizing My Sister&#8217;s Battery To Store Free Daytime Electricity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/best-battery-size-solar-sharer\/\">Part 2:\u00a0 The Best Battery Size For Solar Sharer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fortunately, my sister was satisfied with my work, so there was no need for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Part 3:\u00a0 Ronald Rates Facial Reconstruction Surgeons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The profitability of a 28 kWh battery will depend on my sister regularly charging it from the grid with free daytime electricity. There&#8217;s no point in joining a VPP that doesn&#8217;t allow it, as it saves more than VPPs provide. But despite the benefits, surprisingly few VPPs support it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dingo-deterrent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dingo-deterrent.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dingo-deterrent-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>My Sister&#8217;s VPP Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>My sister only gave me two requirements. I should find a VPP that will make her lots of money, and she shouldn&#8217;t have to do anything to get it. While this seems reasonable, I decided that if I want my sister to be happy, I should actually look for five things&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>High return.<\/li>\n<li>Eligible for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/nsw-rebate\/\">NSW VPP Incentive.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Set-and-forget&#8221;, so she doesn&#8217;t have to actively manage the VPP.<\/li>\n<li>Preferably compatible with a range of batteries, as she hasn&#8217;t decided what she&#8217;s getting yet.<\/li>\n<li>Limited lock-in: The less my sister is locked into contracts, the better. This is because she is like a dingo &#8212; dangerous when cornered. And &#8212; also like a dingo &#8212; dangerous when not cornered.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But it also works the other way, as VPPs have requirements for households to join&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>General VPP Eligibility<\/h2>\n<p>VPPs have a range of conditions that include&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No one at the address can rely on life support:<\/strong>\u00a0 No problem here. If you don&#8217;t stay on my sister&#8217;s good side, no machine in the world will keep you alive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You can&#8217;t already be a member of a VPP:<\/strong> I&#8217;m certain my sister doesn&#8217;t have a hidden battery she&#8217;s secretly VPPing with. I&#8217;m sure all her secrets are far worse.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your battery must be compatible with the VPP:<\/strong> My sister doesn&#8217;t have a battery yet, but her rural location will limit available installers and the batteries she can easily get, so this is an important consideration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your electricity retailer plan must be compatible with the VPP: <\/strong>Most VPPs either require you to use one specific plan or the plans of one particular retailer. A VPP where you end up paying more for a bad plan than you get in payments is worse than useless.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A reliable internet connection:<\/strong> No problems there. She has fibre to a really long length of copper wire, guarded from the meth-addicted by dropbears, or &#8212; if they&#8217;ve already dined on a few and developed a taste &#8212; meth bears.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/koala-vpp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/koala-vpp.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/koala-vpp-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>NSW VPP Incentive Eligibility<\/h2>\n<p>In NSW, you can be paid for joining a VPP. My sister definitely wants this because she prefers to have money rather than not have it. Sometimes she feels sad that other people have any money at all. Currently, the incentive cap is roughly $1,000 for 28-50 kWh batteries. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/nsw-rebate\/\">find details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to meeting the usual VPP requirements, the incentive also requires the following&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The battery must be over 2 kWh and no more than 50 kWh:<\/strong> This isn&#8217;t a problem, as I&#8217;ve recommended a 28 kWh battery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The battery must be eligible to receive the incentive with the VPP you intend to join: <\/strong>Hopefully, this information will be on the VPP&#8217;s site, but if not, you can contact them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The NSW VPP incentive can&#8217;t have already been used at that address\/NMI:\u00a0<\/strong>No problem there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was necessary to join a VPP for at least 12 months, but this requirement was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energysustainabilityschemes.nsw.gov.au\/news-media\/pdrs\/new-pdrs-rule-published-12-october-2026\">removed last month<\/a>, so it looks like my sister won&#8217;t have to be locked in if she wants the incentive.<\/p>\n<h2>Available NSW VPPs<\/h2>\n<p>Now I know what to look for in a VPP and that eligibility shouldn&#8217;t be a problem; all I have to do is work out which VPPs available in rural NSW are eligible for the NSW incentive and find the best one. But that&#8217;s going to be tough, because there are at least 15 at the time of writing &#8211; more than in any other state (likely due to the NSW incentive) and a lot of them are really bad. I don&#8217;t mean bad, as in they&#8217;re not very good. I mean that if you join them, they will only cost a normal household money. So watch out!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to compare the features of VPP plans, you can do that on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/vpp-comparison\/\">VPP comparison table<\/a>. Not all the VPPs are on the table, but that&#8217;s okay, because not all of them should be used.<\/p>\n<h2>Weeding VPPs<\/h2>\n<p>The first hurdle for the VPPs to vault is free battery charging. It must be possible to set the battery to charge during scheduled daily free periods, so my sister won&#8217;t have to do anything. Despite the potential savings, few VPPs allow it. If they want customers, this will have to change, because savings from free charging can greatly outweigh VPP benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The only VPPs meeting the requirement that I could find are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GlowBird ZEROHERO VPP, which requires its specific electricity plan.<\/li>\n<li>Origin Battery Lite VPP + Origin Solar Sharer Offer electricity plan (full disclosure &#8211; Origin is the owner of SolarQuotes).<\/li>\n<li>CovaU Powerbreak VPP, which requires its specific electricity plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The AGL &#8220;Bring Your Own Battery&#8221; VPP isn&#8217;t above because its terms and conditions say you can&#8217;t try to &#8220;control&#8221; your battery, which may mean it can&#8217;t be charged during free periods. If this is the case, it&#8217;s stupid and needs to be fixed. If it&#8217;s not the case, it still won&#8217;t be the best VPP for my sister to join, since the AGL Solar Sharer plan doesn&#8217;t have a solar feed-in tariff.<\/p>\n<p>The Shinehub VPP may also meet the requirement, but my sister won&#8217;t get a battery through them, which is necessary to join.<\/p>\n<h2>VPP &amp; Electricity Plan Payments<\/h2>\n<p>Now we consider the one thing my sister loves more than me &#8212; money. I&#8217;ve described the payments below, starting with the one that has a signing bonus.<\/p>\n<h3>Origin Battery Lite VPP: $200 Signing Bonus, Little Long-Term Benefit<\/h3>\n<p>If my sister joins Origin Battery Lite VPP for 12 months, she&#8217;ll get a $200 bonus, which sounds good, but otherwise, the VPP payments aren&#8217;t impressive. Any additional money will come from exporting battery energy to the grid during &#8220;loop events&#8221; for $1 per kWh, plus a 3c feed-in tariff, totalling $1.03\/kWh. This happens automatically, which is a good thing from my sister&#8217;s point of view, and the maximum annual amount will be 200 kWh.<\/p>\n<p>The problems with this are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear how much will be exported during loop events. All that&#8217;s certain is that it won&#8217;t exceed 200 kWh per year.<\/li>\n<li>While most of the energy exported from the battery to the grid will be replaced during free periods or by solar generation, some will come from the grid &#8212; especially in winter. As this has to be paid for, the net return is considerably less than $1.03 per kWh.<\/li>\n<li>It puts extra wear and tear on the battery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If replacing 1 kWh of energy discharged to the grid by the VPP events costs my sister an average of 15c, and she evaluates battery wear and tear at 5c per kWh, then the cost of each kWh exported will be 20c, dropping the net return per kWh to 83c.<\/p>\n<p>I expected Origin to export close to 200 kWh a year, but according to users, the amounts are generally low. I don&#8217;t have enough information to draw any firm conclusions, but I&#8217;ll assume she&#8217;ll export an average of 50 kWh annually during loop events. That comes to around $42 a year, which is miserable. But even if the maximum annual export of 200 kWh were used, it would still amount to only around $166.<\/p>\n<p>So in the first year, my sister might be around $242 ahead, thanks to the signing bonus, but after that, it may only bring in around $42 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of batteries are compatible with the Origin Battery Lite VPP. There are 21 brands currently on the list that start halfway down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/help-support\/energy-products-and-services\/batteries-and-loop-vpp\/compatible-solar-batteries-and-inverter-models?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>GloBird ZEROHERO: Unknown VPP Payments &amp; 50 kWh Daily Free Electricity<\/h3>\n<p>The GloBird ZEROHERO VPP, or Zerohero VPP if you don&#8217;t want to give the impression you&#8217;re shouting, provides payments in a similar way to the Origin VPP &#8212; $1 per kWh exported during &#8220;grid events&#8221;. But GloBird gives no solid information on how often these are likely to happen or how much energy may be exported. If I use the same assumptions, it might bring in roughly $40 per year.<\/p>\n<p>If my sister wants to get the NSW VPP incentive for signing up with the Zerohero VPP, she&#8217;ll need to have one of the ten compatible battery brands listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globirdenergy.com.au\/join-vpp\/\">on this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Globird Zerohero Electricity Plan Payment<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>There is another payment my sister can receive, which isn&#8217;t from the Zerohero VPP but the Zerohero electricity plan she&#8217;ll have to use. It&#8217;s a $1 credit for each evening that less than 0.03 kWh of grid electricity is consumed each hour from 6-9 pm. When I first heard about this, I thought many households would miss out, as it&#8217;s not unusual to draw more, even when a home battery can provide more than enough power to meet demand. But after talking to people with this plan, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Because my sister will be getting a battery of around 28 kWh, with a decent-sized inverter, she should be able to get this $1 every day, or close to it. If I assume she nabs it nearly 98% of the time, it comes to $355 a year &#8212; nine times more than the guesstimated VPP payment.<\/p>\n<p>The Zerohero electricity plan also has an advantage over Solar Sharer plans because it has a 50 kWh daily cap on free electricity, rather than 24 kWh. While nice to have, it&#8217;s not much of an advantage for my sister. But it could be very useful to someone with higher electricity consumption with a large battery and a powerful inverter.<\/p>\n<h3>CovaU Powerbreak VPP: This Will Cost My Sister Money!<\/h3>\n<p>If my sister joins the CovaU Powerbreak VPP, her battery will automatically discharge to the grid during grid events. How often this will happen and how much energy is likely to be exported is unknown. There is a payment for this, but it&#8217;s only 15c per kWh, so on average, it would cost my sister money. Using the same assumptions as for the Origin Battery Lite VPP, she will lose 5c per kWh exported. If 50 kWh are exported per year, she will lose around $3. While those with different circumstances may do better, for my sister, this plan is worse than useless.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/padme-vpp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/padme-vpp.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/padme-vpp-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/padme-vpp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/padme-vpp-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The CovaU Powerbreak VPP requires its own electricity plan, but I couldn&#8217;t find clear details about it anywhere on their site. They expect you to call them up for a quote, and who&#8217;s got time for that in this modern age, where photos can be developed in under 48 hours? So I found the details elsewhere online, and they&#8217;re pretty bad.<\/p>\n<h2>Taking The Electricity Plan Into Account<\/h2>\n<p>While the total payments for GloBird ZEROHERO make it seem like a slam dunk, it&#8217;s not that simple. To find out how much my sister will actually save, I need to work out how much she would pay on the electricity plans the VPPs require her to use, taking into account the electricity rate and supply charges.<\/p>\n<p>After estimating what her grid electricity consumption would be like if she had a 28 kWh battery over the past 12 months, I worked out what the plans would cost my sister. Combining estimated VPP payments with electricity plan costs gives&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>GloBird ZEROHERO VPP:<\/strong> $40 annual net VPP payments + $355 electricity plan payments -$216 additional electricity plan costs\u00a0 = $179 estimated annual return<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin Battery Lite VPP:<\/strong> $42 annual net VPP payments + $0 extra in electricity plan payments = $42 estimated annual return ($242 in first year)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CovaU Powerbreak VPP:<\/strong> -$3 estimated net VPP payment loss &#8211; $60 extra in electricity plan payments = -$63 estimated annual loss<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The results indicate that &#8212; if she is going to be part of a VPP &#8212; she will get the highest return by joining the Origin Battery Lite VPP for one year to get the signing bonus, and then switch to GloBird ZEROHERO VPP for the higher annual return.<\/p>\n<h2>For My Sister, VPPs Are Absolute Crap<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;re not done yet. While it looks like my sister can make money from two of the three VPPs above, it&#8217;s also necessary to work out how much she would save if she didn&#8217;t join a VPP at all and instead used the best electricity plan with daily periods of free electricity. For my sister, the lowest-cost plan I&#8217;ve found has three daily hours of free electricity with a 50 kWh cap and is called&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CovaU SolarMax:<\/strong>\u00a0 $180 per year cheaper than Origin Solar Sharer without a VPP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using the above estimate, it&#8217;s this much cheaper per year than the three VPPs&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1 cheaper than GloBird ZEROHERO VPP<\/li>\n<li>$138 cheaper than Origin Battery Lite VPP ($62 more expensive in the first year with its $200 signing bonus.)<\/li>\n<li>$243 cheaper than CovaU Powerbreak VPP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, without a state incentive or signing bonuses, there would be zero point in my sister joining a VPP at all. That&#8217;s what I call a bloody embarrassing outcome.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also embarrassing how the CovaU SolarMax plan absolutely mogs the CovaU Powerbreak VPP. But this is probably my sister&#8217;s fault. The CovaU SolarMax non-VPP plan has a low overnight rate, which is when my sister consumes unusual amounts of electricity &#8212; possibly directly, having superseded all natural means of sustaining her life force. Because my sister&#8217;s electricity consumption patterns aren&#8217;t normal, not everyone who wants to charge their battery with free electricity may be better off without a VPP, but it&#8217;s sure as hell worth checking before signing up.<\/p>\n<h2>The Most Cost-Effective Approach<\/h2>\n<p>Because my sister is happy to take incentive money and signing bonuses, her best option is to join the Origin Battery Lite VPP with the Origin Solar Sharer Offer electricity plan for 12 months and then cancel both and join the CovaU SolarMax electricity plan with no VPP.<\/p>\n<p>However, because plans and electricity patterns can change over the course of a year, she should check if she&#8217;d be better off with a different electricity plan or even joining a different VPP. Possibly another one with a signing bonus.<\/p>\n<h2>Australian VPPs Are A Shameful Mess<\/h2>\n<p>VPPs are confusing and provide little benefit, or &#8212; as in my sister&#8217;s case &#8212; are worse than useless without incentives or signing bonuses. If it wasn&#8217;t for the NSW government tossing money her way, she wouldn&#8217;t consider joining any VPP worth the effort. Because she&#8217;d be happy to let a VPP use her 28 kWh battery to support the grid if she could be certain of coming out modestly ahead, this is a stupid state of affairs. The potential of VPPs in the eastern states has been squandered due to a combination of poor implementation and burning consumer trust to a crisp. Only WA is anywhere close to getting it right, and that state being ahead in a way that involves electricity is not a thing I ever thought I&#8217;d say.<\/p>\n<p>VPPs outside of WA may improve thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aemc.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-08\/Final%20determination%20-%20Unlocking%20CER%20benefits%20through%20flexible%20trading%20-%2015%20Aug%202024.pdf\">changes that took place on 1 November<\/a>, which could increase my sister&#8217;s chances of finding a decent VPP after her first 12 months are over. Or, they may stay the same. But that&#8217;s a topic for another blog post.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, learn more on this by reading our detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/virtual-power-plants\/\">guide to VPPs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, out of the goodness of my heart &#8212; along with a fervent desire for that heart to remain within my chest &#8212;\u00a0 I worked out what battery size my sister should buy for her home in rural NSW. Now I&#8217;ve been told I have to decide which VPP she should join. 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