P.V panels feed a 10kWh battery which runs an inverter to feed all those things that gnaw away at the grid all day - towel rails, fridge, freezer, always on lights, etc it’s amazing how those little watts add up. If you’re ever in Napier I’d be happy to show you the system. That said, I have both thermal and PV panels because I can. Many people ignore solar hot water heaters in favour of PV, but thermal panels are about six times more efficient than PV at converting sunlight, so need much less roof space. Result enough hot water and warm feet! Our power bill for this month came this morning $127 dollars not too bad. During the free power period a ground source heat pump runs and boosts these cylinders, as well as direct heating the potable cylinder. They feed a coil in the (potable) 300 litre house cylinder and run the underfloor heating system. These are used during the day for solar buffering. I used HWC’s bought from the scrappy (copper of course). Water is brilliant and cheap for thermal storage, and needn’t cost a bomb. In my case I have built the house, so have deliberatly installed energy store to hold solar derived power, It is that I’m using to store the free power. This is what the power retailer is banking on. In practice it is difficult to find useful loads to do that. Taking full advantage of plans like this is a bit tricky, One usually has a power limit of 15kVA so three hours of free power is 45kVA max. Hi Tom, the electricity retailer is responsible for metering. (Cheers to whoever worked on these! I found them while scrolling through the list of official integrations and thought it was pretty cool to get info about quakes and volcanos.).

New Zealand Geonet GeoJSON Feeds - #16 by nickrout.Question about integrating EliteControl alarm system into Home Assistant (NZ company).Wall switches for Aus / NZ / Islands / USA modbus ELV.Need help setting up Z-Wave integration for Smanos K2 Hub Home Assistant (Aeotec Z-Wave USB Stick).Home Assistant enthusiasts in Hamilton, New Zealand?.Dominator garage door connecting to Home Assistant - New Zealand.It would be interesting to hear about home automation products that are available in NZ since it sometimes can be hard to find things that people are using in the US. Hi everyone, I was thinking that it could be nice to start a thread for Home Assistant users in New Zealand.

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