Hello everyone,
We recently came across Tibber and are considering whether it might be suitable for us and economically viable. Does anyone here use it? Specifically, we’re interested in the hourly, dynamic billing and this Pulse device that you need to buy for it. Is it some kind of submeter? They throw around terms like “smart home,” but I haven’t fully understood it yet.
Can the Pulse device be installed by yourself, or does it require a certified electrician? The idea seems to be that it measures electricity consumption in real time.
We have photovoltaic panels, an electric car, and a fairly large battery storage system, so we would presumably be well equipped for this. However, I’m not sure if with our setup we can specifically control if and when power is drawn from the grid. Depending on the price (which can sometimes even be negative), it might make sense to feed everything from the photovoltaic system into the grid and power the household from the grid when the price (like yesterday) was as low as -40ct.
If anyone has any experience with this, good or bad, please feel free to share.
We recently came across Tibber and are considering whether it might be suitable for us and economically viable. Does anyone here use it? Specifically, we’re interested in the hourly, dynamic billing and this Pulse device that you need to buy for it. Is it some kind of submeter? They throw around terms like “smart home,” but I haven’t fully understood it yet.
Can the Pulse device be installed by yourself, or does it require a certified electrician? The idea seems to be that it measures electricity consumption in real time.
We have photovoltaic panels, an electric car, and a fairly large battery storage system, so we would presumably be well equipped for this. However, I’m not sure if with our setup we can specifically control if and when power is drawn from the grid. Depending on the price (which can sometimes even be negative), it might make sense to feed everything from the photovoltaic system into the grid and power the household from the grid when the price (like yesterday) was as low as -40ct.
If anyone has any experience with this, good or bad, please feel free to share.
Today, I hired Switchup to handle my switch from Hamburger Energiewerke with 33.09 cents/kWh, 9.89 grams CO2/kWh to energy4u (ultimately part of Rheinernergie) with 27.31 cents/kWh, 17.85 grams CO2/kWh.
Conditions: sustainable green electricity
Contract term: 1 month
Price guarantee: 12 months
I expect to save approximately 452 EUR/year.
For me, the only 1-month contract term is always important because I have found that it results in better service since I can leave immediately at any time.
The price could probably be even lower, but then it would not be with sustainable green electricity and usually with a mutual contract term of at least 12 months.
Conditions: sustainable green electricity
Contract term: 1 month
Price guarantee: 12 months
I expect to save approximately 452 EUR/year.
For me, the only 1-month contract term is always important because I have found that it results in better service since I can leave immediately at any time.
The price could probably be even lower, but then it would not be with sustainable green electricity and usually with a mutual contract term of at least 12 months.
OWLer schrieb:
But that’s exactly what makes it comparable. Just because the local utility company has a poor purchasing strategy (sorry, but the results are partly quite terrible), you can still contract the forward market smartly.
For me, the current C24 price is the benchmark Tibber should meet, not some random utility where a certain Hubertus buys base and peak contracts once a year for the following year.
That’s exactly what I mean.
Currently, I have 28.5 and could continue to purchase at these prices on a fixed basis. When I see that the same conditions involve much higher risk procurement, I wonder: Why? Yes, and we will make that comparison as well, but only once we have a full year of data with Tibber. The numbers above are from the "bad" months, so I don’t want to jump to conclusions yet.
By the way, I was also told (by the technical expert in our household) that part of the fees at Tibber (the grid usage fee) depend on location. So: We are using Tibber near Munich.
Hey, is it actually possible to have two meters and get two contracts from different suppliers? And then theoretically switch between them with a toggle switch? So, whenever the Tibber price falls below the fixed price amount or something like that, you switch over, and if it even goes negative, you charge as much as possible? Of course, you still have to calculate whether it’s worth it, but if there apparently are providers that only cost 5 EUR per month, this could actually pay off quite quickly...
Tolentino schrieb:
By the way, is it actually possible to have two contracts with different suppliers if you have two meters?That shouldn’t be a problem since these are separate metering points. Of course, this doesn’t work with cascade systems.