Amber Electric
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There's room for improvement
We are moving on from Amber electric after about 2 months of using them. I anticipated that based on when we used electricity and how much we export to the grid we would save approx $150 per year. However, the app generates warnings after they've happened sometimes hours later! And with the recent explosion in QLD at the callide power station the constant price spikes are really eating into any savings. The first day it happened I switched everything except my fridge off to maximise the huge solar feed in tariff and yet some how I generated $3.00 of solar while at the time the feed in price peaked my system was generating 2 - 4 kwh. I ensured that everything was kept to a minimum usage to save money and to help the grid which was struggling to meet demand. I expected the days energy cost to be high but boy i got a rude shock the next day when I saw our energy usage charges were $88 for the DAY for less than 30kw of usage! We've been on a small get away ever since (thankfully) but we are due to go back tomorrow and I am still seeing peak forcecast pricing around $17kwh, although it does tend to be lower. Basically the issue this has caused has negated any possible savings, and will actually cost me more money than it otherwise would have until my new energy company will switch me over.