Tag Archives: Tariffs & Retailers
What Happens When the Grid Goes Down? Solar and Outages
Here's the part the sales brochure tends to skip: a standard grid-connected solar system shuts down ...
Avoiding Plunge Pricing: Managing Dynamic Energy Tariffs
If you're on a dynamic (spot-priced) export plan and the wholesale price drops below zero, exporting...
Vector's Line Charge Increases and How to Offset Them
If you're an Auckland household on Vector's network, your lines charges have been climbing, and they...
How to Arbitrage Battery Storage with Smart Tariffs
Battery arbitrage means charging your home battery when power is low-cost (usually overnight, someti...
Electric Kiwi MoveMaster Solar Plan Explained
Electric Kiwi's MoveMaster plan gives you a free Hour of Power every day (one off-peak hour where yo...
Contact Energy vs Genesis Energy Solar Buy-Back
If you're choosing between Contact and Genesis to sell your solar export to, the headline is this: b...
Pulse Energy & Powershop Solar Rates Compared
Here's the short version: Pulse Energy and Powershop are run by the same parent company (Pulse Energ...
Power Edge Solar Buy-Back Contracts Explained
Power Edge sells solar systems and bundles them with a buy-back arrangement for the power you export...
Meridian Energy Solar Buy-Back Plans Explained
Meridian Energy pays a flat solar buy-back rate for the power your panels export to the grid, curren...
How Ecotricity's Resi-Flex Peak Export Plan Works
Ecotricity's Resi-Flex plan pays one of the highest peak export rates in New Zealand: at the time of...