Homes made up to £100 with electricity trick last winter

Energy customers who owned a home battery earned up to £25.60 for selling their electricity back to the grid in a first-of-its-kind for the UK trial last winter. The results of a trial run by battery company SolarEdge and Smart Metering systems showed that battery-owning homes got a lot more money back from the grid than those who simply turned off their appliances.

But these customers had to change their behaviour during the period in order to make money. Households with batteries were able to benefit without doing anything. Smart Metering Systems would send a signal to the battery to start charging from the grid in the hours leading up to the demand flexibility event. Then, when the event was taking place, this power would be sold back to the grid at a much higher price than it had been bought for.

It also proved useful for the grid. The average household in the normal DFS who simply switched off appliances reduced the burden on the grid by 0.5 kilowatt hours . Those with batteries took 2.7 kWh of strain off the system.

Ensuring that demand for electricity is flexible is seen by many as one of the best solutions to one of the biggest challenges in switching to renewable energy – the fact that the sun does not always shine or the wind always blow. Encouraging customers to use electricity when it is most abundant – windy and sunny periods – can make it a lot cheaper to manage this challenge.

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