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Big batteries are going in fast. Too many are being left dumb, unsupported, and unable to earn their keep.<\/p><\/div>\n

I was on ABC Adelaide this week to talk about the battery rebate. First question was easy. Has it been popular?<\/p>\n

Hell yes.<\/p>\n

Roughly 150,000 batteries in six months. That is a staggering number.<\/p>\n

But then I said something that sucked the air out of the studio. About half of those batteries, from what I am seeing, are paired with sketchy gear and rushed installs. Big batteries. Cheap prices. Forty or fifty kilowatt-hours for peanuts.<\/p>\n

A residential battery that size is not a simple box you bolt on for self-consumption and forget. Most homes need about 16 kWh for self-consumption + backup reserve. That leaves tens of kWh free to trade via dynamic tariffs or VPPs. That is also where things get tricky. Even if the electrical work just scrapes through, the battery configuration almost never does. Dynamic tariffs change all the time. Prices go negative. Export rules flip. Control logic needs tuning. Software needs updates. Someone has to take responsibility for that over years, not just on install day.<\/p>\n

Cheap installs do not price that in. At all.<\/p>\n

Then the calls started.<\/p>\n

A Negative Experience<\/h2>\n

Ben rang up. He said he was on a tariff where prices can go negative. When that happens, he gets charged for exporting power. His system is meant to stop exporting when prices go negative. It is not doing that. Installer says talk to the energy retailer. Energy retailer is too busy to help.<\/p>\n

I asked him a question. You are with Amber, right?<\/p>\n

Dead silence.<\/p>\n

I have been on ABC enough to know naming names is fine if you are not selling anything. And the silence said everything. Amber is flat out with the rebate surge. Support queues are long.<\/p>\n

Ben then said he had been poking around his switchboard and turned off the breaker to his solar inverter. That stopped the exports. Which of course it did. I told him straight. This is not your job. You should not be fault-finding your own energy system. Your installer should be fixing this.<\/p>\n

I do not know which installer Ben used or what he paid. I also do not know whether he asked his installer to set the system up for dynamic tariffs in the first place. If he did not, then it would be fair for the installer to charge for that work after the fact.<\/p>\n

The problem is not that installers charge for this work. The problem is when it is never offered, never explained, or quietly skipped.<\/p>\n

If the installer will not configure the system and Ben stays on a dynamic tariff, he will keep bleeding money. The safest move might be to switch back to a boring retailer with flat prices and no nasty surprises.<\/p>\n

Ben did not want to hear that. I get it. People like the idea of being clever with power. They like seeing prices dance around on an app. But clever systems need proper setup and support. Lots of people bought batteries from installers who priced only for basic self-consumption. The result is batteries that save a fraction of what they could. In many cases, those people would have been better off paying more for solid hardware from an installer who allowed time for proper configuration and ongoing help as tariffs and rules change.<\/p>\n

Not Everyone Is A Home Assistant Ninja<\/h2>\n

Yes, some people can do this stuff themselves. They know how tariffs work. They know how to configure an energy system. They know what settings to touch and which ones not to. They might even be Home Assistant ninjas. They are allowed to save a grand or two by using their own valuable skills and time.<\/p>\n

Most people are not those people.<\/p>\n

If you want a battery that earns its keep, plays nicely with dynamic pricing, and still functions properly three years from now, it will cost more upfront.<\/p>\n

Cheap installs just send the bill later.<\/p>\n

Phase Shift is a weekly opinion column by SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock. Subscribe to\u00a0SolarQuotes\u2019 free newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get it emailed to your inbox each week along with our other home electrification coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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