How To Maximise Your Home Generated Solar Power

Australia leads the world with the number of homes having solar power installed. 

In fact well over 15% of homes have installed solar power. Yet a very small amount of those homes, have any form of energy monitoring installed. 

Meaning there are many homes with unknown financial losses and many whom are not aware, their solar power system has issues!

Installing energy monitoring allows you to be become one of the lucky householders, whom will easily know :

• Instantly of any solar power hardware issue
• How to maximise the use of generated power against imported power
• Reduce exported power when there is little financial return
• Reduce your overall power costs, by increasing efficiency of energy use and appliances

This is a great solution when compared to the average Aussie home. Where householders are only aware of issues when the electricity bill arrives. Every 3 months and that's if they check the bill! Now that could be a large financial loss!

Now in your home when you install energy monitoring you are easily going to see data that up to now has been missing. Energy data for :

Generation : Consumption : Import : Export

We believe there are 5 EASY STEPS to reducing your power costs with solar power installed.

1. Maximise the best use of your generated solar power
2. Minimise your imported power during the sunny hours of the day
3. Depending on your metering, reduce exported power [when paid little for your excess power]
4. Increase efficiency of any power used and appliances
5. Secure the best electricity deal you can

By adding more hardware to your Realtime Solar Power Monitoring System you could also be :

• Monitoring your 10A socket based appliances such as entertainment, freezer, tenant etc
• Monitoring more power box based circuits such as air conditioner, pool, workshop etc

With your Aussie Home Energy Monitoring System collecting data, in real-time you will soon know :

• What energy your appliances are using and the costs
• When appliances are left on by error
• The 24/7 standby power of your appliances

IMPORTANTLY by installing a tablet for your Solar Power Monitoring System in an easy to see location, you will allow everyone in the home to act on the real-time data. When everyone becomes aware of electricity usage and costs quickly, you see savings quicker!

Welcome to our world of Solar Power & Electricity Consumption Monitoring. 

Start your investigations today on monitoring your solar power and consumption by visiting our SOLAR POWER MONITORING page, or simply call us for a friendly chat.


This blog post brought to you by Aussie Home Energy, a major player in the HOME ELECTRICITY SAVING SERVICE industry in Australia.

Why Not Send Solar Export To Appliances On AutoPilot?

When you are NET metered your solar power if not used by your appliances, is simply exported back to the grid. And in some cases for little financial return ie four to six cents!

Now whilst you can turn appliances on / off to use this power off the roof instead of exporting, in some cases it is simply to hard.

To hard due to you being at work or you do not have the time whilst at home for such a task. So what about if you could get this to happen on autopilot?

What we mean here is you direct the excess power ie exported power to a switched outlet in your home. Now this switched outlet could be connected to a long list of appliances such as:

• Tumble dryer
• Washing machine
• Portable air conditioner
• Electric heater
• Heated towel rail
• Storage heater
• Air to air heat source pump
• Small immersion heater
• Electric slow cooker
• Water pump
• Charging electronics / 12 volt car batteries
• Charging a golf buggy
• Charging an electric car
• Hot tub
• Pool pump cleaner
• Pool heater

Each 10A switched outlet is limited to a maximum power rating of 2400W. Meaning that is 2.4kW of export being used smartly. Importantly maximising your solar power investment's financial return.

Now if your exporting 10kW a day, that is only 60 cents return @ 6 cent per kW. Though powering your appliances via the 10A switched outlet, that same power has just saved you $2.20 off imported power costs [based on 22 cents per kWh]

As you can see that is a SMART POWER SAVING idea! Now if that was the case for only half of the year, it compares to:

• An export return of $109
• Or an import offset return of $400!  

Now if your interested in such an idea, then why not visit our SMART SOLAR POWER Dashboard for all the information?

Diverting Your Excess Power

This blog post brought to you by Aussie Home Energy a major player in the HOME ELECTRICITY SAVING SERVICE industry in Australia.